From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 6 14:52:30 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 49B1237B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 14:52:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hardtime.linuxman.net (hardtime.linuxman.net [66.147.26.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 704C943E09 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 14:52:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hardtime.linuxman.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g66LAgX11592; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 16:10:43 -0500 Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 5774B1F02; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 16:52:20 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 16:52:20 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Darren Pilgrim Cc: ticso@cicely.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How does swap work address spacewise? Message-ID: <20020706215220.GG5512@over-yonder.net> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D2762FE.9D9E0378@pantherdragon.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i-fullermd.1 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD 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 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