From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 9 14:36:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15537 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:36:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line5.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA15532 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:36:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA06204; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:36:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:36:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Charles Henrich cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swap Files In-Reply-To: <19970807152328.65342@crh.cl.msu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Charles Henrich wrote: > For B) I meant literally a swap partition, not swap space. I.e. FreeBSD > apparently doesnt handle just having a large swap FILE at all well. I don't understand what you're asking here. As you proved, it works fine w/o a swap partition, but if you run out of physical memory you are SOL. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo