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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!cs.widener.edu!eff!world!ksr!dean From: dean@ksr.com (Dean Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Adding Swapspace ?? Message-ID: <17072@ksr.com> Date: 19 Oct 92 17:19:15 EDT References: <Bw7H4L.LLB@cosy.sbg.ac.at> <1992Oct16.162729.3701@ninja.zso.dec.com> <1992Oct16.201806.21519@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@ksr.com Organization: Kendall Square Research Lines: 19 In article <1992Oct16.201806.21519@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >What we really need is the ability to swap to a file (any file -- say an >NFS mounted one, for instance) and get rid of the idea of a swap >partition altogether. Then you make a default swap file out of a >bunch of contiguous file system blocks; if you let it grow, you pay >for it being discontinuous then; at least you don't have to reinstall. This is a great feature. Be sure not to break the raw partition swapping to do it. (It is a real pain to fill up the filesystem, and not be able to fix it for lack of swap space) Do mach external pagers work in 386BSD? Will they work in 4.4BSD? --Dean -- Dean Anderson dean@ksr.com | Ok, maybe I'll vote now. KSR Computing Facilities | But I'll be real mad if The Kendall Square Research | Winner doesn't fix everything