Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 23:56:27 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Solaris and Swap Space Message-ID: <3795DF9B.E11B0F29@newsguy.com>
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One more technical follow-up. Solaris uses swap files. These can be either regular files or "slice" device files. I couldn't find any comments defining the _exact_ range of possible files, the above are what the documentation uses as example. The swap spaces are defined by a tuple of <file, offset, size>, which defines the exact position inside the file where the swap is located. Finally, the "swap -s" command, which I used to determine whether the thing overcommits or not, reports *total* memory. The man page explicitly refers to the main memory as a "swap space" for the purpose of "swap -s". Thus, Solaris does, indeed, use a RAM+SWAP model. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Your usefulness to my realm ended the day you made it off Hustaing alive." -- Sun Tzu Liao to his ex-finacee, Isis Marik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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