Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:31:39 +0100 (BST) From: Developer <dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: turing off swap interleaving Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960722133110.23948H-100000@fgate.flevel.co.uk>
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On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > 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... k Sounds like a good idea - I`d like to find out if this is possible also. What is the quickest way of creating a 100MB file BTW? Also I managed to delete the swap file after swapping on it! I think it didn`t free up the space on the file system however. Is this safe or not? Regards, Trefor S.
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