From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 22 02:19:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA28622 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 02:19:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nike.efn.org (gurney_j@garcia.efn.org [198.68.17.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA28615 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 02:19:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.efn.org [127.0.0.1]) by nike.efn.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA25407 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 02:19:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 02:19:51 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: turning off swap interleaving Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am wondering if there is a way to disable interleaving... or best yet... tell it not to use one partition of swap until another is used up... the reason I ask is because I reciently came very close to running out of swap so I created a 16meg file, vnconfiged it... and swapped it on... then I relized that the interleaving will actually kill performance when it swap... while it would be better to tell it to use the original swap until that is full... any body thought of this before? thanks for the help... TTYL... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)