Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 07:17:07 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: An idea for swap partition size vs. swap space size in use handling Message-ID: <202301220717.30M7H7wC022099@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <E187AA6B-6832-4A75-81BC-21E0A999154D@yahoo.com> References: <E187AA6B-6832-4A75-81BC-21E0A999154D.ref@yahoo.com> <E187AA6B-6832-4A75-81BC-21E0A999154D@yahoo.com>
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-------- Mark Millard writes: > It would be nice if I could have just one swap partition > on a given boot media, one that is more than sufficient > in size for all but the biggest RAM system --but to then > be able to tell the system to just use up to the > recommended swap space size and to ignore any extra swap > space in the swap partition. Last I looked at that code, that is precisely what happens if you add a too big swap-device ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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