From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 5 06:56:17 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA20456 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 06:56:17 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA20445 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 06:56:14 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id GAA08690; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 06:56:11 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id GAA00192; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 06:56:11 -0700 Message-Id: <199504051356.GAA00192@corbin.Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: corbin.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: bob@obiwan.pmr.com (Bob Willcox) cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: swap always use at least 64KB ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Apr 95 08:52:56 CDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1995 06:56:10 -0700 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> There were two manifestations. It would either destroy your label (I think >> this was in the SCSI case) or it would get EROFS when the swap pager tried to >> page something out to it. I think the 'destroy your label' problem was fixed >> awhile ago. Now the pager just fails with the EROFS. ...Anyway, the first >> chunk can't be used. > >Would this explain these errors (the EROFS on SCSI) on my 1.1.5.1 >system? Yes, that's what is causing them. > If so, are they harmful? Not fatal...but not at all desired. It might lead to the death of the process with a segfault at a later time. > I have been getting them for some >time (since I added the disk with the swap partition starting at >the beginning of the disk :-() but haven't been able to attribute >any other problems to them. I highly recommend changing the disk label on the drive to have the swap partition start at cylinder 1 rather than cylinder 0. -DG