Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:44:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Roderick van Domburg <r.s.a.vandomburg@student.utwente.nl> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/55277: [patch] Update tuning man page to reflect recent swap changes by phk Message-ID: <200308051044.h75AiNb0002560@gog.student.utwente.nl> Resent-Message-ID: <200308051320.h75DKGju012541@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 55277 >Category: docs >Synopsis: [patch] Update tuning man page to reflect recent swap changes by phk >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 06:20:16 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: The tuning man page should reflect the fact that there no longer is an upper limit to the number of swap devices. (A previously submitted bug report appears to have been lost somewhere along the way.) >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: --- /usr/src/share/man/man7/tuning.7.old Tue Aug 5 12:42:56 2003 +++ /usr/src/share/man/man7/tuning.7 Tue Aug 5 12:43:01 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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