From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 11 12: 8:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F0A637B406 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:08:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spqr.osg.gov.bc.ca (spqr.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2C843E91 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:08:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca) Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (passer.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.110.29]) by spqr.osg.gov.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31FB69EF18; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:08:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys.cwsent.com (cwsys2 [10.1.2.1]) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9BJ7mKt003025; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:07:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cy@cwsent.com) Received: from cwsys (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9BJ7grW002634; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:07:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cy@cwsys.cwsent.com) Message-Id: <200210111907.g9BJ7grW002634@cwsys.cwsent.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group X-os: FreeBSD X-Sender: cy@cwsent.com To: "Vladimir B. " Grebenschikov Cc: Mikhail Teterin , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using mem above 4Gb was: swapon some regular file In-Reply-To: Message from "Vladimir B. " Grebenschikov of "08 Oct 2002 15:01:16 +0400." <1034074876.917.23.camel@vbook.express.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:07:42 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <1034074876.917.23.camel@vbook.express.ru>, "Vladimir B. " = Grebensch ikov writes: > =F7 Tue, 08.10.2002, =D7 00:30, Mikhail Teterin =CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1=CC: > = > > Users wishing to swap onto a local regular file have to go through th= e > > vnconfig/mdconfig gimnastics. Is that intentional? > = > Yes. > May be we need add new type to md device, like "highmem", to access > memory above 4G as memory disk, and as consequence use it as swap-devic= e > or as fast /tmp/ partition or whatever ? > = > In this case we will be able to use more than 3Gb of RAM. This is reminiscent of S390 ESTOR. -- Cheers, Phone: 250-387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: 250-387-5231 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Email: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, CITS Ministry of Management Services Province of BC = FreeBSD UNIX: cy@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message