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- From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
- Subject: Re: Few questions about NetBSD
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 16:16:03 -0500
- Organization: Panix
- Message-ID: <4fb4qj$9de@panix3.panix.com>
- References: <1747.6610T551T2688@stack.urc.tue.nl> <4f7lck$4eo@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> <4f929h$5a8@drivel.ics.uci.edu>
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- In article <4f929h$5a8@drivel.ics.uci.edu>,
- Roger P. Ang <rang@ics.uci.edu> wrote:
- >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.
- >
- >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).
-
- Are you sure that's true? If it is, the Amiga port is different from all of
- the other ports I've used.
-
- "options GENERIC", which was in most ports' generic kernels last I checked,
- pulls in swapgeneric.c, which will automagically put swap on the first
- partition it can find on the boot disk that's got fstype swap in the
- disklabel.
-
- No "swapon -a" required.
- --
- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
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