From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 15 10:46:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from misha.cisco.com (misha.cisco.com [171.69.206.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B89E814C48 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 10:46:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mi@misha.cisco.com) Received: (from mi@localhost) by misha.cisco.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id NAA98408 for current@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 13:44:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi) From: Mikhail Teterin Message-Id: <199904151744.NAA98408@misha.cisco.com> Subject: swap on Irix (overcommiting, etc.) To: current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 13:44:10 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: mi@aldan.algebra.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL52 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Irix, each swap area has the following parameter (from swap(1M)): vswap The size the system believes the area can hold. This is always greater than or equal to pswap and maxswap. This way, an administrator can control the amount of overcommited memory (making it 0 if neccessary). It may be sufficient to have this as a centralized parameter, rather then a per swap area. They also have priorities of the swap areas (only swap here when areas with higher priorities are full), and an ability to stop paging onto a particular area. Mmmm... -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message