From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 11 19:31:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA18824 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 19:31:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from max.roskildebc.dk (max.roskildebc.dk [194.182.101.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA18815 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 19:31:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by max.roskildebc.dk (5.61/9.8) with UUCP id AA02201; Tue, 12 Aug 97 04:23:28 +0200 Received: by swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA00742; 12 Aug 97 04:17:25 +0100 From: Doug.White@234-49-99.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (Doug White) Date: 09 Aug 97 23:36:33 +0100 Subject: Re: Swap Files Message-Id: <755_9708120417@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> Organization: Fidonet: Swimsuit Safari <-> Internet Gateway To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk From: Doug White Subject: Re: Swap Files On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Charles Henrich wrote: > For B) I meant literally a swap partition, not swap space. I.e. FreeBSD > apparently doesnt handle just having a large swap FILE at all well. I don't understand what you're asking here. As you proved, it works fine w/o a swap partition, but if you run out of physical memory you are SOL. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo -- |Fidonet: Doug White 2:234/49.99 |Internet: Doug.White@234-49-99.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own.