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Date:      Mon, 1 Jun 1998 12:59:39 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        "Ekaterina N. Ivannikova" <kate@forsys.msk.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: firewall/router setup?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.980601125722.13383A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.90.980601141843.3357A-100000@ns.forsys.msk.ru>

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On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Ekaterina N. Ivannikova wrote:

> > There are two sysctl's for this:
> > 
> > vm.defer_swapspace_pageouts
> > vm.disable_swapspace_pageouts
> > 
> > When set to 1, the first tells VM to avoid paging, and the second tells it
> > the system doesn't have any swap.
>  
> Thank you for the info. But aren't these version 3.0 sysctl's by any 

Ah, yes... I'm afraid they are purely 3.0 things...

> chance ? On my FreeBSD 2.2.5 sysctl -a doesn't show these oids. It has 
> vm.swapping_enabled though. I once tried setting it to 0, but the system 
> still swapped. Evidently I missed something.

For the exact interpretation of this sysctl in 2.2.5 you should ask John
Dyson - he's the person behind it.

Andrzej Bialecki

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