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Article #573Re: Virtual memory devours my disk
From: David Fox
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 15:20
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 15:20
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In article <1992Apr7.201330.10720@leland.Stanford.EDU> magnus@Kimura.Stanford.EDU (Magnus Nordborg) writes: I fail to see why this is so awful. If you specify a "hiwat" mark so that the swap file cannot fill the whole partition, you have basically turned the swap file into a swap partition. We use a lot of swap on our system, and on the SPARCs we need to set aside 300MB as a separate partition, whereas on the NeXT, we can at least sometimes use that space... I set hiwat and it had absolutely no effect. Even if hiwat did work, the tiny difference between NeXT and Sun is that the Sun will release the swap space once it is finished. The NeXT just fills up the space available and then dies. -david
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!cs!fox From: fox@cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Virtual memory devours my disk Message-ID: <FOX.92Apr8102030@graphics.nyu.edu> Date: 8 Apr 92 15:20:30 GMT Article-I.D.: graphics.FOX.92Apr8102030 References: <giDLiB2w165w@midiline.la.ca.us> <264@moene.UUCP> <1992Apr5.161632.24963@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Apr7.201330.10720@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: notes@cmcl2.nyu.edu (Notes Person) Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: magnus@Kimura.Stanford.EDU's message of Tue, 7 Apr 92 20:13:30 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: graphics.cs.nyu.edu