Re: Swapfile won't grow

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From: Paul S. Sears
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:45

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In article <1eenkpINN3kp@news.gac.edu>  writes:
#
#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.
#
#Michael Ibrahim
#wasfy@nic.gac.edu

It seems that you have the hiwater mark set to 30M in the /etc/swaptab  
file.  Remove the entry for hiwat=xxxxxx and then reboot.  You should then  
be able to use all the disk for swapping.

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