Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 00:07:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Roderick van Domburg <r.s.a.vandomburg@student.utwente.nl> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/55276: [patch] Update tuning.7 to reflect phk's swap changes Message-ID: <200308042207.h74M783e060567@gog.student.utwente.nl> Resent-Message-ID: <200308051320.h75DKGov012527@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 55276 >Category: docs >Synopsis: [patch] Update tuning.7 to reflect phk's swap changes >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Aug 05 06:20:15 PDT 2003 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Roderick van Domburg >Release: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT i386 >Organization: University of Twente >Environment: System: FreeBSD gog 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Mon Aug 4 15:35:46 CEST 2003 roderick@gog:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GOG i386 >Description: Now that there no longer is a limit to the number of swap devices, the tuning man page should be updated accordingly. >How-To-Repeat: N/A >Fix: --- share/man/man7/tuning.7.old Wed May 21 17:49:01 2003 +++ share/man/man7/tuning.7 Tue Aug 5 00:02:15 2003 @@ -45,8 +45,7 @@ later on if you add more memory to your machine. Finally, on larger systems with multiple SCSI disks (or multiple IDE disks operating on different -controllers), we strongly recommend that you configure swap on each drive -(up to four drives). +controllers), we strongly recommend that you configure swap on each drive. The swap partitions on the drives should be approximately the same size. The kernel can handle arbitrary sizes but internal data structures scale to 4 times the largest swap partition. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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