Article View: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Article #907Re: next disks and swapfiles
From: Alex Blakemore
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 04:42
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 04:42
22 lines
1192 bytes
1192 bytes
In article <1992Aug19.021153.6966@raven.uucp> brad%raven@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca (Brad Nelson) writes: > do 'man mach_swapon'. > do 'head -60 /etc/rc | tail -10' (look for line with 'mach_swapon') > do 'cat /etc/swaptab' > That oughta give you some ideas! a couple of other pointers are: NeXTAnswers OS.355 /etc/rc.swap man swaptab man checkswap but is the swapfile contiguous in the default setup created by BuildDisk? (and so by using a faster disk you still may do worse due to increased seeking?) if so, is there a way to create a contiguous swapfile? or is the only way to do this to create a separate partition? -- --------------------------------------------------- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<59773@mimsy.umd.edu>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!mimsy!alexReferences:
<1992Aug18.162747.1@ccsua.ctstateu.edu> <1992Aug19.021153.6966@raven.uucp>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!mimsy!alex From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: next disks and swapfiles Message-ID: <59773@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 19 Aug 92 04:42:14 GMT References: <1992Aug18.162747.1@ccsua.ctstateu.edu> <1992Aug19.021153.6966@raven.uucp> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 22