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Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 1996 03:15:15 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        dyson@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Request to add this to FAQ re: swap space
Message-ID:  <199610290815.DAA02962@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199610290346.TAA00655@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Oct 28, 96 07:46:51 pm

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> 
> > as usual, add some space in for expansion and for process growth.
> 
> Thats what ``swapon'' is for :-) :-) :-) :-)
> 
So are you going to add the code to properly support swapon for files? :-).
I think that 2.2 is going to be frozen soon, and the risk/reward might be
excessive to do it.  VN devices exact a significant performance hit.  In
fact, the swapon for files will also.

John




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