Swapfile won't grow

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From: Michael Wasfy Nicolas Ibrahim
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:37

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Hello,

I own a mono station with an internal 105 meg disk.  I have dedicated the 105  
as a swapdisk according to the instructions in NeXT Answers.  It functions  
properly to a point but will not allow the swapfile to grow above 30 meg.  That  
is my machine generates a number of these errors in /usr/adm/mesgs when the  
swapfile is only 30 megs:  

Nov 14 01:12:12 localhost mach: vnode_pager: /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile is  
full.
Nov 14 01:18:15 localhost mach: vnode_pager: /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile is  
available again.

I think that the operating system has even killed processes (preferences often  
dies at approximately the same time) to free up space when this limit is  
reached.  Everything in the swaptab is commented out so no highwater mark is  
set and I assume the swapfile should be able to use the entire disk.  Anyone  
have any ideas what is wrong?  Any help would be appreciated.  I'm using 3.0,  
if it's important.

Thanks,

Michael Ibrahim
wasfy@nic.gac.edu

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