Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 08:56:27 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mdconfig and _virtual_ memory Message-ID: <90992.991896987@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Jun 2001 10:19:34 EDT." <200106061419.f56EJYN18798@aldan.algebra.com>
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In message <200106061419.f56EJYN18798@aldan.algebra.com>, Mikhail Teterin write s: >When I moved to mdconfig, I figured I have to use ``-t swap'' for the >same effect, but it seems, I was wrong -- apparently, ``swap'' means the >filesystem will always hit the disk, even if there is plenty of RAM to >go around. My suspicion was further confirmed, by disabling the swapping >at all -- the mdconfig-ed device stopped working -- disklabel got >ENOMEM. The swap backing in md(4) is a straight copy of the code which lived in vn(4). I'm not terribly familiar with that code, but I would expect that it would work with no swap space as well. Your man is probably Matt Dillon... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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