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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Request to add this to FAQ re: swap space
To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 03:15:15 -0500 (EST)
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> 
> > as usual, add some space in for expansion and for process growth.
> 
> Thats what ``swapon'' is for :-) :-) :-) :-)
> 
So are you going to add the code to properly support swapon for files? :-).
I think that 2.2 is going to be frozen soon, and the risk/reward might be
excessive to do it.  VN devices exact a significant performance hit.  In
fact, the swapon for files will also.

John