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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Using a regular file as swap space?
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Aug27.150230.21975@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 03:01:34 GMT
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- In <1992Aug27.150230.21975@news.acns.nwu.edu> williams@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Gus Williams) writes:
-
- | 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.
-
- We don't support it yet; maybe in the next release.
-
- | 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?
-
- Nope. I suppose that it could theoretically be done to a remote
- file, since this is what diskless does, but I don't think there
- is anyway to do it with the /etc/swap command.
-
- If you have an extra disk, you can use 'swap -a' to add more
- swap space on that disk.
-
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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