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- From: williams@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Gus Williams)
- Subject: Using a regular file as swap space?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.150230.21975@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:02:30 GMT
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- I recently ran into a small problem. We have an old groundwater
- code (written in the dark ages before computers) that needs to be
- run occasionally. This code needs huge amounts of swap space. On
- the order of 300 megsf (in addition the the 48 megs of ram on my
- machine). On a SUN I use I can use the mkfile command to create a
- file and the swapon command to use that file for swap space (slow
- but faster that doing the calculations by hand). I can't seem to
- find out how to do this on a SGI. Any help would be apprieciated.
-
- Also on the same subjet. Is it possilble to swap to a swap partition
- mounted on a remote machine. Again on the SUN I can do
- swapon remote:/dev/sd2b (or something like that)
- Can I do this on SGI?
-
- Thanks for any help.
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