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- From: horde@reed.edu (Mr. Heiji Horde)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Rebooting (was Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.171911.7619@reed.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 17:19:11 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Sep8.171911.7619
- References: <1992Sep7.215151.2517@metrosoft.com> <1992Sep8.105655.712@macc.wisc.edu> <BOB.92Sep8095726@volitans.MorningStar.Com>
- Organization: Twisted Genius Rehabilitation Center, a Division of MHE
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- In article <BOB.92Sep8095726@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep8.105655.712@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
- > Besides, there's sysadmin machismo to be considered, right? We're
- > supposed to be the masters of it all, eating disasters for a light
- > lunch and all that.
- >
- >Where's the machismo in rebooting a PC on steroids, with a key labeled
- >"Power" on the keyboard? I bump it half the times I go groping for
- >the "~" or "\" keys.
-
- heh...what's really fun is when the NeXT gets SOOO frozen that you can't
- break out either by hitting the power key or <cmd>-<cmd>-~. Then you
- get to use the reset switch...you yank the cord out of the wall.
-
- I like the reset switches on my DECs and MACs. They're much nicer than
- having to cut off the power to the machine. But, hey, the NeXTs don't
- seem to mind too much. And some of ours have been around since 0.9 with
- only 2 reformats of their hard disks.
-
- Another possible solution for the expanding swapfile we haven't tried yet
- is to set an upper bound for its growth. Why haven't we tried this? Because
- it makes the machine just as unusable as when the swapfile grows until it
- fills up the disk.
-
- -Heiji
-
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