From owner-freebsd-security Tue Aug 10 15:56:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E5CC14C4E for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 15:56:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA02953; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:55:50 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:55:50 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Matthew Dillon Cc: "Childers, Richard" , "'H. Eckert '" , "'freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG '" Subject: Re: 4 Swap partitions limit (was Re: RE: Little question (offtopic)) Message-ID: <19990810175550.A2750@futuresouth.com> References: <199908102243.PAA70944@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199908102243.PAA70944@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 03:43:10PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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). -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ FutureSouth Communications | ISPHelp ISP Consulting "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message