Multiple swap disks

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1 total messages Started by Joseph Chin Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:09

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Author: Joseph Chin
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:09

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I came across this in NextAnswers os.355 regarding the use of multiple  
swap disks:

> [...] This will enable paging to two files (based on the standard
> configuration of swaptab):
> 
> 	/private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile
> 	/private/vm/swapfile
> 
> This might seem like A Good Thing, but it isn't.  Last we knew, there
> was a (minor?) bug which prevented using multiple swapfiles
> successfully. (The bug is that if a mapped file spans swapfile
> boundaries, not-completely-predictable things can happen.  To tickle the
> bug, though, the primary swapfile must fill up first.) Should be benign,
> really. [...]

Does this still apply to System 2.1/2.2?

Joe

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