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- From: matt@karazm.math.uh.edu (Matt Emerson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: avoiding swapfile problems
- Summary: put a hiwat on the size of your swapfile
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.031852.26803@menudo.uh.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 03:18:52 GMT
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- Organization: UH Dept of Math
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- A good way to avoid having the swapfile grow to fill your disk is to put
- something like the following in /etc/swaptab
-
- /private/vm/swapfile lowat=20971520,hiwat=42000000
-
- This way, the swapfile won't get any bigger than the value you set for hiwat.
- I seem to remember that it's important not to add any spaces between
- the comma or equals sign and their surrounding words.
-
- When you reboot, the system will truncate the swapfile to whatever lowat is.
- -matt
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- Matt Emerson
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