Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:55:50 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "Childers, Richard" <RCHILDER@hamquist.com>, "'H. Eckert '" <ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de>, "'freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG '" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4 Swap partitions limit (was Re: RE: Little question (offtopic)) Message-ID: <19990810175550.A2750@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199908102243.PAA70944@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 03:43:10PM -0700 References: <D57D3E9BF7C1D211884400805F77AC7DFE384B@sf1-mail01> <199908102243.PAA70944@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 03:43:10PM -0700, a little birdie told me
that Matthew Dillon remarked
> :Continuing to wander off-topic, here ... I've noticed that FreeBSD 3.1 will
> :not allow more that four swap partitions. Does anyone know why this is?
>
> You can compile up a kernel that allows more then four, but even
> having four will almost certainly going to be overkill.
How so?
I have 5 on my personal workstation, and will probably have more whenever
I add disk. I generally stick a swap partition on every physical disk
(things like news spool drives are excepted for obvious reasons).
Vis:
[17:45:29] mortis:~
(ttyp8):{6}% pstat -s
Device 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
/dev/da0s1b 655232 0 655232 0% Interleaved
/dev/da1s1b 524160 0 524160 0% Interleaved
/dev/da2s1b 130944 0 130944 0% Interleaved
/dev/da3s1b 262016 0 262016 0% Interleaved
/dev/da4s1b 524160 0 524160 0% Interleaved
Total 2096512 0 2096512 0%
(I just rebooted, normally anywhere from 50-200 megs is used under normal
conditions).
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