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- From: baglioni@arcetri.astro.it (Roberto Baglioni)
- Subject: Problems with a large swap area
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.112028.29414@arcetri.astro.it>
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- Organization: Dipartimento Astronomia Firenze
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 11:20:28 GMT
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- Have you ever heard about SunOs (4.1.1) getting in trouble when managing
- a swap area larger than (say) 100 Mbytes?
-
- We have the following scenario:
- a sparcstation-2 with a ~600 MBytes Hard disk and a swap area
- of 120 Mbytes.
-
- Regardless if the swap area is only the sd0b partition or if it is split
- between two partitions or even a partition and a swap file SunDiag
- finds lots of errors when running the test on virtual memory.
- On the contrary SunDiag doesn't report any error if we configure
- the disk with the standard 32Mb swap partition.
-
- Our Sun assistance tested the disk for a long time and it is OK.
- They also said that virtual memory test doesn't fail if the secondary
- swap partition (additional partition) is in a different disk.
- What does it mean?
- Any suggestion?
-
- Thank you in advance
-
- Roberto Baglioni
- System Manager
- Dipartimento di Astronomia
- Universita' di Firenze
-
- baglioni@arcetri.astro.it
-