From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 13:26:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23804 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 13:26:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.netbistro.com (vortex.netbistro.com [204.239.167.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA23595 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 13:25:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grimm@shell.pgonline.com) Received: (qmail 27479 invoked by alias); 25 Feb 1998 21:24:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 27460 invoked from network); 25 Feb 1998 21:24:52 -0000 Received: from shell.pgonline.com (grimm@204.239.167.36) by vortex.netbistro.com with SMTP; 25 Feb 1998 21:24:52 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 13:26:38 -0800 (PST) From: Grimm To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recovering from disaster, and other nastiness... In-Reply-To: <19980225194437.30824@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: X-Geek: GCS d- s++:- a-- C++ UB++>++++ P+>++++ L- E? W+ N+(++) o? K- w+(!w---) !O M-- !V PS+ PE Y !PGP t+ ?5 X+ R tv b+ DI+@ D+++@ G e h- r y+** MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > There's no way to influence it externally short of rewriting the > virtual memory system, and I can't think of any reason to do that. > FreeBSD has one of the best virtual memory systems you will find > anywhere. Hehe. Okay. No problem. I had just assumed that since one needs to partition for swap space when installing FreeBSD, that such partitioning is static, rather than dynamic. Anyway, I just wanted to thank everyone on the list who helped me out. :) I've managed to recover gracefully from this, and everything is working, now that it's back the way it used to be. (ie, without the new, incompatible-with-my-motherboard RAM...) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message