Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:57:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, dillon@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mdconfig and _virtual_ memory Message-ID: <200106200257.f5K2vS628250@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <90992.991896987@critter>
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So, Matt, any comments? On 7 Jun, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <200106061419.f56EJYN18798@aldan.algebra.com>, > Mikhail Teterin writes: > >>When I moved to mdconfig, I figured I have to use ``-t swap'' for the >>same effect, but it seems, I was wrong -- apparently, ``swap'' means >>the filesystem will always hit the disk, even if there is plenty of >>RAM to go around. My suspicion was further confirmed, by disabling the >>swapping at all -- the mdconfig-ed device stopped working -- disklabel >>got ENOMEM. > > The swap backing in md(4) is a straight copy of the code which lived > in vn(4). I'm not terribly familiar with that code, but I would expect > that it would work with no swap space as well. > > Your man is probably Matt Dillon... -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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