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- From: rang@europa.ics.uci.edu (Roger P. Ang)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
- Subject: Re: Few questions about NetBSD
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 02:20:33 GMT
- Organization: UC Irvine, Department of ICS
- Message-ID: <4f929h$5a8@drivel.ics.uci.edu>
- References: <1747.6610T551T2688@stack.urc.tue.nl> <4f7lck$4eo@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>
- Reply-To: rang@ics.uci.edu (Roger P. Ang)
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- In article <4f7lck$4eo@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>,
- Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
- >E. Durmin (eka@stack.urc.tue.nl) wrote:
- >> - I've heard that NetBSD uses a just little bit more memory than Linux...
- >> I've downloaded top (top-3.3) and tried to start top.
- >> It doesn't start... it says that there was no memory left...
- >> Do I really have no memory left or is the swap partition not in use?
- >> Does 'swapon -a' turns on the swap partition or is NetBSD automatically
- >> turning on the swap-partition?
- >
- >AFAIK, NetBSD uses your swap-partition per default, you don't have to care.
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- Yes, 'swapon -a' is run in /etc/rc (I think, or in /etc/rc.local).
- However, you have to make sure the swap partition is listed in
- /etc/fstab. I don't think the install script does that (only sets up
- root and /usr partitions in /etc/fstab).
-
- Roger P. Ang (rang@laputa.ics.uci.edu)
- Irvine? Where's Irvine? Grad student at the
- In the heart of the Orange Curtain. Dept. of Information & Computer Sci.
- Oh no! The poor fool. Univ. of California, Irvine. USA
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