From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 17 02:37:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA06708 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 02:37:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.HeadCandy.com ([199.238.225.168]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA06675 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 02:37:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.HeadCandy.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id CAA07012; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 02:31:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606170931.CAA07012@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.HeadCandy.com: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Khetan Gajjar cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Way to flush swap In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 16 Jun 96 14:53:43 +0200. Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 02:31:05 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Does anyone out there have a solution to flushing swap, besides for >rebooting the machine, buying more ram or increasing the size of the swap >partition ? Buy another disk and add a second swap partition. Unfortunately, you won't get much extra performance since you're running IDE, but you might get a little. With SCSI and its asynchronous nature, you can get a big performance improvement (when swapping, of course) by spreading swap over several drives. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------