Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 12:21:02 +0100 (CET) From: Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: Jonathan Towne <wrongway@slic.com>, John Lundin Jr <lundin@snark.richmond.edu>, freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your builds Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912041216510.30602-100000@propro.oldserver.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <199912040826.AAA00636@mass.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Have you looked into whether you can use a Windoze file as swap > > > and auxiliary filesystem container? Haven't set up an experiment > > > yet. I'm told linux can do it. Be nice to eliminate NFS, even if > > > the pc has to slurp a lot more across the network at first. > > > > Hey! great idea, I hadn't thought about trying to use the windows > > swapfile that was already available.. this might just work, if I > > went along and created it as a vnode device, i believe i might > > just try this tonight and post the results later :) > > You can do it, but performance sucks. I'm led to believe that later > versions of windows also grow and shrink the swapfile, so it's not so > straightforward anymore. > Windows 95 and later do indeed resize the swapfile by default. This can be changed in Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Performance, to a fixed size. I'm told this also increases Windows performance. Defragment the disc/partition you use for swap though before changing this in Windows. Marc Marc Schneiders marc@venster.nl marc@oldserver.demon.nl propro 12:16pm up 5 days, 12:12, load average: 0.32 0.86 1.31 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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