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Article #656Re: next disks and swapfiles
From: Sherwood Botsford
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:00
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:00
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Yes BuildDisk makes a contigious swap file. Next even goes to the effort to put the swapfile near the shared libraries to minimize head movement. However, when the swap file grows beyond the lowwater mark, it will be allocated as needed from wherever there is space on the disk. This can be a real pain. Thus ideally you would create a swap file of the max size you ever intend to use right at the beginning when you built the disk. If you make the mistake of deleting the swap file, then when it's recreated, it may not be in the same place. This can make a significant difference to the performance.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!ubc-cs!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!news From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) Subject: Re: next disks and swapfiles Message-ID: <1992Aug25.200031.8999@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: fenris.space.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1992Aug25.104913.52658@news.th-darmstadt.de> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:00:31 GMT Lines: 15