How to configure additional swap space?
George Robbins
grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
Wed May 30 08:10:05 AEST 1990
In article <50480 at ames.arc.nasa.gov> schoch at trident.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Schoch) writes:
> In article <2068 at wheaton.UUCP> stefan at wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle ) writes:
>> I had the same message
>>when playing around with additional swap space.
>> My guess is that something in the
>>kernel already has your swap devices open in an exclusive mode and any further
>>references give the somewhat misleading message about `no such device' when it
>>might be better to spit out `device locked' or something like that.
>
> I believe what happens is unlike some other versions of BSD Unix, when
> you configure more than one swap devices in the conf file, the Ultrix
> kernel turns on swap on those devices when the kernel boots, and doesn't
> wait for swapon.
No, I don't think it uses them, however it apparently does try to open
and size them or some such. The fact that they must be on-line if declared
is mentioned in the Ultrix 3.0 [i think] release notes. Beyond that, all
is supposition.
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