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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,tw.bbs.comp.386bsd
Subject: Re: vm_pageout, Why ???
Date: 14 May 1996 23:28:31 GMT
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serge@autocar.org.tw (HSIAO Hsuei-cheng) wrote:

> I use MFS options in my kernel, it works fine, but this morning,
> it gave me a message like this.
> 
> vm_pageout, out of swap
> 
> Why ?

MFS is backed to the device you're giving it as the mount device,
usually identical to the primary swap area.  So if you try to mount a
too large MFS onto a too small swap area, you're asking for trouble.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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