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From: Andrey Alekseyev <uitm@zenon.net>
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Subject: Re: swapoff?
In-Reply-To: <200207130727.g6D7Rft3076942@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew
 Dillon at "Jul 13, 2002 00:27:41 am"
To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:23:59 +0400 (MSD)
Cc: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>,
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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>


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Andrey Alekseyev. Zenon N.S.P.

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