From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 8 4: 1:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E12437B401 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 04:01:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vbook.express.ru (asplinux.ru [195.133.213.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 152EF43E65 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 04:01:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vova@express.ru) Received: from vova by vbook.express.ru with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17ys73-0001wm-00; Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:01:17 +0400 Subject: using mem above 4Gb was: swapon some regular file From: "Vladimir B. " Grebenschikov To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <200210071630.42512.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> References: <200210071630.42512.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 08 Oct 2002 15:01:16 +0400 Message-Id: <1034074876.917.23.camel@vbook.express.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG =F7 Tue, 08.10.2002, =D7 00:30, Mikhail Teterin =CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1=CC: > Users wishing to swap onto a local regular file have to go through the > vnconfig/mdconfig gimnastics. Is that intentional? Yes. May be we need add new type to md device, like "highmem", to access memory above 4G as memory disk, and as consequence use it as swap-device or as fast /tmp/ partition or whatever ? In this case we will be able to use more than 3Gb of RAM. =20 > Thanks! =20 --=20 Vladimir B. Grebenschikov vova@sw.ru, SWsoft, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message