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- From: wjb5106@rigel.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett)
- Subject: Re: New kernel fix
- Message-ID: <25AUG199217350683@rigel.tamu.edu>
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- Organization: Texas A&M University
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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:35:00 GMT
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- In article <=1anl3l.genie@netcom.com>, genie@netcom.com (The Genie) writes...
- >
- >I'd like to know people's experience with the new kernel fix
- >released by IBM. IBM recommends this new kernel to everyone running
- >OS/2. Of the many things it fixes, it fixes the bug that
- >keeps the swap file one constant size, instead of changing
- >the size due to the system's needs.
- >
- >I've installed the kernel for about 2 weeks now, but have
- >not yet noticed that \os2\system\swapper.dat change in size
- >onece yet. Did I install the kernel incorrectly if this is
- >that case? Or am I worrying about nothing. The size
- >is currently 4194304 bytes. Thanks in advance.
- >
-
- I am using the new kernel (6-17-92) and it works as advertised. It
- sounds like you have the minimum swapfile size set to four megabytes in
- your config.sys file and the system has never felt it needed to be any
- bigger (hence, it would never need to shrink).
-
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- Walter Barnett Aerospace Engineering Texas A&M University
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