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Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 13:59:20 -0800
From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall label.c
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Thus spake Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.ORG>:
> dillon      2003/01/25 11:32:35 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     usr.sbin/sysinstall  label.c 
>   Log:
>   Change the nominal swap calculation from 1/2 physical memory to 1/8
>   physical memory.  The default is still 2x physical memory.  The nominal
>   calculation is used to back-off swap auto-allocation ('A'uto command)
>   when the disk is not large enough to accomodate all filesystem auto-defaults.
>   This gives other partitions (like /usr) more priority over swap on smaller
>   disks.
>   
>   This should help solve reported auto-sizing failures on machines with small
>   hard drives and huge amounts of memory.  For example, a machine with 2G of
>   disk and 4G of memory will fail to auto-size without this fix.

While you're at it, could you see if you can fix the problem where
sysinstall refuses to install if no swap partition is specified at all?

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