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- From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke)
- Subject: Re: Rebooting (was Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.093740.288@gamelan>
- Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas)
- Reply-To: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke)
- Organization: NNU Corp. - NeXT is Not UN*X
- References: <1992Sep8.190721.4559@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 09:37:40 GMT
- Lines: 20
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- In article <1992Sep8.190721.4559@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- magnus@Fisher.Stanford.EDU (Magnus Nordborg) writes:
-
- > out of swapspace, but the alternative seems to be what one does on many
- > other Unix machines: pre-allocate a couple of hundred megabytes for a
- swap
- > partition. Then you will not have to see virtual memory eating your disk
- > because, in essence, it already has!
- >
-
- Setting a highwater mark for the swapfile is'nt very recommendable: It will
- crash (stop) the NeXT if the mark is reached. How do other UNIX-systems
- handle this ? AIX starts killing processes, if there is not enough
- paging-space. But still the system is usable.
-
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- Thomas Funke ** E-mail: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de
- NeXT-Developer * Unix-Consultant
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