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In article <BOB.92Sep8095726@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com  
(Bob Sutterfield) writes:

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> An ever-growing swap file is a bug that no user should tolerate, and
> that any vendor should be embarassed to let out the door, even on its
> first limited-circulation alpha prerelease of a new OS version.
> Frequent rebooting is not an acceptable solution to an OS bug.

The swapfile is *not* "ever growing" if you specify a maximum size in  
/etc/swaptab. Of course, doing so will not stop the system from running  
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!

This is not to say that it wouldn't be nice if the swap file could shrink  
dynamically as well, but only to claim that it isn't as horrible as some  
postings seem to indicate. :-)
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