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- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Subject: Re: SWAP size for 20MB IIci?
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- References: <1356@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> <C0Jtzq.ELv@Novell.COM> <1993Jan9.173034.12446@noao.edu> <1367@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 20:12:14 GMT
-
- I ramble:
-
- >tody@noao.edu (Doug Tody) writes:
-
- >>This is what I thought too, but swap appears to work differently under A/UX
- >>than most UNIX systems. On most UNIX systems I have seen swap space is
- >>allocated when virtual memory is allocated to a process; every time you run
- >>a process or do a malloc in the process you see the available swap space
- >>decrease. On A/UX however, if you can believe swap -l, NO swap space is
- >>used until the total virtual memory usage exceeds the physical memory
- >>available. Hence if you have vast amounts of physical memory, little or no
- >>swap is used.
-
- >One must recall that A/UX (as well as other "newer" :) Unices) perform both
- >swapping and paging...
-
- And one should also recall that the activity of vhand can be adjusted by
- knowledgable use of 'kconfig'... :)
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