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From: dnelson@cyclone (Dan Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Suggestion for 3.0 :-)
Date: 14 Jun 1995 06:38:53 GMT
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Junichi Kurokawa <jun@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp> wrote:
>>>>>> "M" == Mikhail Teterin <mi@cs.bu.edu> writes:
>
> M> How about using all (or a chunk) of Windows swap file space as an
> M> additional swap space? I believe many of FreeBSD users also have
> M> MS Windows installed.
>
>Plain-file swap as opposed to a dedicated swap pttn will be even better.
>
># any possibility for performance drawback?
I would assume you'd get a pretty big hit, since you're now going through
the MSDOS filesystem code, and for swap files, you want as fast access as
you can get.
On the other hand, I just vnconfig'd my 386spart.par (or whatever it is) as
a swap device, and it works okay. Since I only made a 32 meg raw swap
partition, adding 12 more megs of swap without repartitioning was nice.
I noticed (via swapinfo) that it seemed to fill both swap devices at the
same time, though. Can I tell BSD to use my raw partition first?
-Dan Nelson // Some people think MS-DOS is a
\X/ necessary evil. They are wrong.
dnelson@xnet.com MS-DOS is *not* necessary.