Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:31:17 +0400 (MSD) From: "Ekaterina N. Ivannikova" <kate@forsys.msk.ru> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: firewall/router setup? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.90.980601141843.3357A-100000@ns.forsys.msk.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980601114713.27134A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Ekaterina N. Ivannikova wrote: > > > On the same subject. I would love to use a couple of FWTK proxies on a small > > FreeBSD system loaded from a floppy or two. The problem is I can't make > > it out what is the right way of telling FreeBSD there is _no_ swap space > > available. Or is swapping an absolute must for *BSD ? Since proxies > > fork a child for each serviced request what will happen when there is no > > more free memory _and no_ swap ? Will the kernel panic or will just fork > > fail ? > > There are two sysctl's for this: > > vm.defer_swapspace_pageouts > vm.disable_swapspace_pageouts > > When set to 1, the first tells VM to avoid paging, and the second tells it > the system doesn't have any swap. Thank you for the info. But aren't these version 3.0 sysctl's by any chance ? On my FreeBSD 2.2.5 sysctl -a doesn't show these oids. It has vm.swapping_enabled though. I once tried setting it to 0, but the system still swapped. Evidently I missed something. Ekaterina To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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