From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 22 05:23:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA04883 for current-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 05:23:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fgate.flevel.co.uk (root@fgate.flevel.co.uk [194.6.101.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA04877 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 05:23:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dev@localhost) by fgate.flevel.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA23991 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:31:39 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:31:39 +0100 (BST) From: Developer To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: turing off swap interleaving Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.