From owner-freebsd-security Tue Aug 10 16:11:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6526C14C4E for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 16:11:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 45391 invoked from network); 10 Aug 1999 23:10:02 -0000 Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.40) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 10 Aug 1999 23:10:02 -0000 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:10:02 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: Matthew Dillon , "Childers, Richard" , "'H. Eckert '" , "'freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG '" Subject: Re: 4 Swap partitions limit (was Re: RE: Little question (offtopic)) In-Reply-To: <19990810175550.A2750@futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 03:43:10PM -0700, a little birdie told me > that Matthew Dillon remarked > > :Continuing to wander off-topic, here ... I've noticed that FreeBSD 3.1 will > > :not allow more that four swap partitions. Does anyone know why this is? > > > > You can compile up a kernel that allows more then four, but even > > having four will almost certainly going to be overkill. > > How so? How often do you swap lots? Enough that you overwhelm the throughput of four SCSI disks? Seems unlikely; if you do, you should consider adding memory. It might make sense if you had a bunch of little drives, but given you have a hard time finding a disk less than 4 GB these days, I don't really see the point. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message