From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 6:26:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149AB37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 06:26:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [216.138.209.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A032243E09 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 06:26:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgilbert@velocet.ca) Received: from canoe.velocet.net (canoe210.velocet.net [216.138.240.43]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA40137F44; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:26:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: by canoe.velocet.net (Postfix, from userid 101) id 3AB0E5678CC; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:26:13 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15660.13813.145392.538491@canoe.velocet.net> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:26:13 -0400 To: Dmitry Morozovsky Cc: Erik Trulsson , Chuck Robey , FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: [hackers] Re: swap & huge mem systems In-Reply-To: <20020709125835.Y75130-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20020709015454.GA6323@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20020709125835.Y75130-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> X-Mailer: VM 7.04 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Dmitry" == Dmitry Morozovsky writes: Dmitry> BTW, is it safe to create _interleaved_ swap totally sized Dmitry> slightly above the amount of physical RAM? I mean, is core Dmitry> writer interleve-aware, or does it need the first swap Dmitry> partiton large enough? The dump device (which is not necessarily a swap device) has to be large enough ... and it's one device. You set the dump device in /etc/rc.conf (it defaults to not dumping). Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message