Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:23:59 +0400 (MSD) From: Andrey Alekseyev <uitm@zenon.net> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>, Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swapoff? Message-ID: <200207130823.g6D8NxP77046@uitm.zenon.net> In-Reply-To: <200207130727.g6D7Rft3076942@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Jul 13, 2002 00:27:41 am"
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Also this would probably be useful in the situation when you need to change swap device on a running system. We had to do this once or twice on a very busy commerical mail server running Solaris. We needed to dismount current swap device and use it for other purpose while having switched paging/swapping to another disk. > I wouldn't worry about it. Nobody turns off swap on a running system > at a whim. It just needs to prevent stupid mistakes like trying to > remove a swap device without having adequate memory + other swap to > take care of the data. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dillon@backplane.com> -- Andrey Alekseyev. Zenon N.S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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