Re: Rebooting (was Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?)

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From: Thomas Funke
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 09:37

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In article <1992Sep8.190721.4559@leland.Stanford.EDU>  
magnus@Fisher.Stanford.EDU (Magnus Nordborg) writes:

> out of swapspace, but the alternative seems to be what one does on many  
> other Unix machines: pre-allocate a couple of hundred megabytes for a  
swap  
> partition.  Then you will not have to see virtual memory eating your disk  
> because, in essence, it already has!
> 

Setting a highwater mark for the swapfile is'nt very recommendable: It will  
crash (stop) the NeXT if the mark is reached. How do other UNIX-systems  
handle this ? AIX starts killing processes, if there is not enough  
paging-space. But still the system is usable. 

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From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: Rebooting (was Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?)
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