From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 21 12:43:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA15414 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:43:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.160.165]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA15385 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:43:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA11145 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:42:50 +0200 From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199609211942.VAA11145@gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Swap on vnode pseudo disks ? To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:42:50 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, can someone please comment on the reliability of vnoded swap areas ? I remember somehow that there were problems and machines liked to crash. However, I have only configured 80 MB of `hard' swap space and need more. I'm running 2.1.5R on a 486DX2/66-ISA with 1 IDE, 2 SCSI drives and 16MB RAM under FreeBSD. Is there a way to avoid that the kernel kills my Xserver ? (It's the most efficient way to start all over again :-) Greetings, Robert -- Robert Eckardt ( Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Inst.f.Theor.Physik, NB6/169 ) Universitaetsstrasse 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany ----X---8---- Telefon: +49 234 700-3709, Telefax: +49 234 7094-574 8 E-Mail: RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de --------8---- URL: http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte >>> To be successful one needs friends, <<< >>> To be very successful one needs enemies. <<<