From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 16 05:01:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA29917 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 05:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.philips.nl (ns.philips.nl [130.144.65.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA29912 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 05:01:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by relay.philips.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9-950414) id OAA08146 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 14:01:16 +0200 Received: from unknown(192.26.173.32) by ns.philips.nl via smap (V1.3+ESMTP) with ESMTP id sma008012; Mon Sep 16 14:00:17 1996 Received: from aonc01.nym.sc.philips.com (aonc01.nym.sc.philips.com [130.144.70.193]) by smtp.nl.cis.philips.com (8.6.10/8.6.10-0.9z-02May95) with ESMTP id OAA02836 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 14:03:11 +0200 Received: from NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com (nlnmg01 [130.144.80.6]) by aonc01.nym.sc.philips.com (8.6.10/8.6.10-1.2a-960822) with ESMTP id OAA03477 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 14:00:40 +0200 Received: from NLNMG01/MAILQUEUE by NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com (Mercury 1.21); 16 Sep 96 14:00:41 +0100 Received: from MAILQUEUE by NLNMG01 (Mercury 1.21); 16 Sep 96 14:00:13 +0100 From: "Kees Jan Koster" Organization: Philips Semiconductors Nijmegen To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 14:00:07 GMT+0100 Subject: Re: Can I combine /tmp and swap? Reply-to: Kees.Koster@nym.sc.philips.com Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <24688EE6225@NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >I seem to recall that it used to be possible to combine /tmp > >and swap. Is that still possible? > > Yep. > Great! :-) > > Extract from the FreeBSD handbook (on kernel options): > [description of MFS option deleted] > Not so great. :-] > > Hope this helps, > Darn. :-( Not quite, when I do that for my disks and I ask swapinfo, it tells me I have no swap devices (i.e. I get the header info, but no devices). Then when I do a mount it shows me two mfs devices, each mounted on /tmp, but the bonnie results tell me that it only uses one of the disks. (Yes, they are that much different in speed). Also, I seem to recall that when I used 2.1.0 I never actually used this option, because when I was toying around with it, it made my system run out of memory (8Mb). Back then, I solved it by not using MFS and using the partitions as regular swap devices. Thanks anyway, Kees Jan Koster