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- From: john@gis.uwa.oz.au (John Saward)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Problems with a large swap area
- Date: 16 Sep 1992 02:10:57 GMT
- Organization: The University of Westrn Australia
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- References: <1992Sep15.112028.29414@arcetri.astro.it>
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- baglioni@arcetri.astro.it (Roberto Baglioni) writes:
-
- >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.
-
-
- I had a similar problem a month or two back that mystified our local
- sun support team for awhile.
-
- We are running SunOs 4.1.2
- Swap was divided between sd0b 32Mb and a swap file of over 100Mb
-
- Our IPX kept crashing, leaving no option but to power off. The disk
- checked out OK. When the >100Mb swap file was replaced with 3 32Mb files
- and a 16Mb file the problem disappeared. The maintenance people had
- no documentation about the problem.
-
-
-
- john
-
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