Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:10:02 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "Childers, Richard" <RCHILDER@hamquist.com>, "'H. Eckert '" <ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de>, "'freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG '" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4 Swap partitions limit (was Re: RE: Little question (offtopic)) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990810180603.60169A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <19990810175550.A2750@futuresouth.com>
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On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 03:43:10PM -0700, a little birdie told me > that Matthew Dillon remarked > > :Continuing to wander off-topic, here ... I've noticed that FreeBSD 3.1 will > > :not allow more that four swap partitions. Does anyone know why this is? > > > > You can compile up a kernel that allows more then four, but even > > having four will almost certainly going to be overkill. > > How so? How often do you swap lots? Enough that you overwhelm the throughput of four SCSI disks? Seems unlikely; if you do, you should consider adding memory. It might make sense if you had a bunch of little drives, but given you have a hard time finding a disk less than 4 GB these days, I don't really see the point. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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