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Subject: Tiny 386BSD install source?  Swapping problems?
Message-ID: <NOP.92Aug2154901@theory.Mankato.MSUS.EDU>
From: nop@theory.Mankato.MSUS.EDU (Jay A. Carlson)
Date: 2 Aug 92 15:49:01
Organization: Mankato State University
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Is the source to the install program on the Tiny 386BSD disk available
anywhere?  I'd like to make a version that installs 10M of swap
instead of 5M, since on the machines I use, 386BSD sorta falls over
dead when it reaches the limit of swap space.  I manually installed a
10M swap partition on one machine, and things were much improved.  I
can't say I'd like to repeat the process for the ~20 machines I need
to install on, though.

Has anyone else seen this swapping behavior, BTW?  It's really
annoying to effectively lock up a machine by accidentally starting gcc
while an Emacs image is in memory.

Jay Carlson
nop@theory.cs.mankato.msus.edu