Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 16:52:20 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org> Cc: ticso@cicely.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How does swap work address spacewise? Message-ID: <20020706215220.GG5512@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <3D2762FE.9D9E0378@pantherdragon.org> References: <20020705113532.GA11273@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <20020705133515.GA295@HAL9000.wox.org> <20020705133837.GA513@HAL9000.wox.org> <20020705234126.GA12183@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <3D2640A7.3EA2236B@pantherdragon.org> <20020706020656.GL48977@cicely5.cicely.de> <3D2762FE.9D9E0378@pantherdragon.org>
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On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 02:37:02PM -0700 I heard the voice of Darren Pilgrim, and lo! it spake thus: > > > And you can have more than a single swap partition. > > Up to four, so then the theoretical limit for swap is 8TB? I hope not, since I have 6 of 'em. 4's just the default. > Do these management structures grow as swap grows, or do they only > change as the utilization increases? I believe they're pre-allocated, so it's the size of swap configured (not used) that eats it. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "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-hackers" in the body of the message
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