Default Swap Partition
Dave Olson
olson at anchor.esd.sgi.com
Sat Sep 15 11:43:51 AEST 1990
In <9009141619.AA01072 at cidws03.cid.aes.doe.CA> aspgasd at cid.aes.doe.ca (Alain St-Denis) writes:
| Is there any special reason why we can't have the default swap partition on
| whatever disk we would like.
|
| I know we can do it using the PROM's "swap" environment variable. But this
| variable is not permanent in the PROM. So we would have to reset it at
| each boot.
|
| Our systems never swapped anything, but since their load will increase in
| the next few months, we thought that it would be more efficient if the swap
| space resided on another disk. Is it that unreasonable?
| --
| Alain St-Denis
| Centre informatique de Dorval
| Environnement Canada
| astdenis at cid.aes.doe.CA
| (514) 421-4697
Just re-configure the kernel with the swap device you want. See the
variable SWAPDEV in /usr/sysgen/system. You might also want to read
the lboot and master man pages, etc., if you need more info.
--
Dave Olson
Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.
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