Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:11:00 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely9.cicely.de> To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: options NO_SWAPPING, still wants swap Message-ID: <20030414091059.GB14180@cicely9.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20030412213940.O6477@pakastelohi.cypherpunks.to> References: <20030410230113.M81717@pakastelohi.cypherpunks.to> <20030411182925.A3507@gamplex.bde.org> <20030412213940.O6477@pakastelohi.cypherpunks.to>
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On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 09:42:42PM +0200, Lucky Green wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Lucky Green wrote: > > > > > I compiled a kernel with "options NO_SWAPPING", yet CURRENT still > > > attempts to allocate swap space: > > > > NO_SWAPPING has nothing to do with not allocating swap space. It prevents > > swapping of upages and stack pages only. > > > > Unfortunately, NOTES' description of NO_SWAPPING says that it disables > > swapping without explaining what swapping is (it is just swapping of > > upages and stack, and has nothing to do with generic VM paging). > > NO_SWAPPING is documented mainlly in the commitlog for the change that > > added it: > > Perhaps a kind comitter could modify NOTES to help make users aware that > NO_SWAPPING does not disable swapping of memory to disk and to look to man > rc.conf for information about the latter? Well - in fact *NO_SWAPPING* does not disable *paging* memory to disk. It more a naming problem that the swap partition serves paging and swapping. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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