From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 14 02:11:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4210837B401 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 02:11:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7DA543FCB for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 02:11:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely9.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3E9B5cx059419 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:11:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely9.cicely.de) Received: from cicely9.cicely.de (cicely9.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:210:5aff:fe30:1c1a]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3E9B3Yi043254 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:11:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely9.cicely.de) Received: from cicely9.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely9.cicely.de (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h3E9B2i3015903; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:11:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely9.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely9.cicely.de (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h3E9B1Qp015889; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:11:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:11:00 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Lucky Green Message-ID: <20030414091059.GB14180@cicely9.cicely.de> References: <20030410230113.M81717@pakastelohi.cypherpunks.to> <20030411182925.A3507@gamplex.bde.org> <20030412213940.O6477@pakastelohi.cypherpunks.to> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030412213940.O6477@pakastelohi.cypherpunks.to> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely9.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT alpha User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: options NO_SWAPPING, still wants swap X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:11:20 -0000 On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 09:42:42PM +0200, Lucky Green wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Lucky Green wrote: > > > > > I compiled a kernel with "options NO_SWAPPING", yet CURRENT still > > > attempts to allocate swap space: > > > > NO_SWAPPING has nothing to do with not allocating swap space. It prevents > > swapping of upages and stack pages only. > > > > Unfortunately, NOTES' description of NO_SWAPPING says that it disables > > swapping without explaining what swapping is (it is just swapping of > > upages and stack, and has nothing to do with generic VM paging). > > NO_SWAPPING is documented mainlly in the commitlog for the change that > > added it: > > Perhaps a kind comitter could modify NOTES to help make users aware that > NO_SWAPPING does not disable swapping of memory to disk and to look to man > rc.conf for information about the latter? Well - in fact *NO_SWAPPING* does not disable *paging* memory to disk. It more a naming problem that the swap partition serves paging and swapping. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de