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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:42:19 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        <uid0@catastrophe.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MFS Question
Message-ID:  <15080.45659.940510.647505@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <97248415@toto.iv>

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uid0@catastrophe.net types:
> Hello -
> 
> I have a system that has 256MB of real RAM and a 768MB swap partition (I
> made it this big so that I can add another 256MB memory chip in the future).

Gee, I think you're swap is a bit small. I've got 256MB and roughly a
gig fo swap. Then again, I used to have a penchant for running memory
hungry things like recompiling common LISP, so I set it to 4x almost
out of habit. After all, disk is cheap.

> What is the best way to setup MFS to utilize that swap space?
> 
> Right now I have this...
> 
> mfs:33         507759        1   467138     0%    /tmp
> 
> Though it looks like the MFS partition size isn't truly 768MB.

Exactly where is that? I use the following line in /etc/fstab to set
up my mfs:

/dev/da1s1b             /tmp            mfs     rw,nosuid,-s=262144     0 0

BTW, you probably don't want to set up things so that /tmp can eat up
all your swap. Running out of swap is bad thing.

	<mike
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