From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 19 20: 0:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from aldan.algebra.com (aldan.algebra.com [216.254.65.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 776BD37B406; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 20:00:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mi@aldan.algebra.com) Received: from aldan.algebra.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aldan.algebra.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f5K2vS628250; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:57:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi@aldan.algebra.com) Message-Id: <200106200257.f5K2vS628250@aldan.algebra.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:57:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin Subject: Re: mdconfig and _virtual_ memory To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, dillon@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <90992.991896987@critter> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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