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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.2 GAMMA 2/5 results in SWAP FULL? Date: 16 Feb 1997 21:06:36 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5e7sss$qo0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <m267zzxceb.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> <5dvgb2$10b2@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35618 tjevans@raleigh.ibm.com (Thomas Evans) wrote: > ok, I did a little rearranging of partitions (didn't even destroy > anything :-) ), I now have 100M of swap space. I'm not sure I buy > the theorys. Just got McKusick's and Co. book on 4.4 BSD, guess I'll > be reading the chapter on memory management. Better read John Dyson's followup in this thread. :-) FreeBSD's swapping algorithm has been largely rewritten, compared to 4.4BSD. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)