:You can create an MD partition with wired memory - no swap backing
:at all, if you want. Obviously you can make such a partition as
:large as you might otherwise want to make it.
Er, I meant can't, not can... with wired memory there are
some severe limitations to how
On 19 Jun, Matt Dillon wrote:
: The swap backing in md(4) is a straight copy of the code which
: lived in vn(4). I'm not terribly familiar with that code, but I
: would expect that it would work with no swap space as well.
:
: Your man is probably Matt Dillon...
You can create
So, Matt, any comments?
On 7 Jun, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Mikhail Teterin writes:
When I moved to mdconfig, I figured I have to use ``-t swap'' for the
same effect, but it seems, I was wrong -- apparently, ``swap'' means
the filesystem will always
:So, Matt, any comments?
:
:On 7 Jun, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
: Mikhail Teterin writes:
:
:...
:
: The swap backing in md(4) is a straight copy of the code which lived
: in vn(4). I'm not terribly familiar with that code, but I would expect
: that it
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mikhail Teterin write
s:
When I moved to mdconfig, I figured I have to use ``-t swap'' for the
same effect, but it seems, I was wrong -- apparently, ``swap'' means the
filesystem will always hit the disk, even if there is plenty of RAM to
go around. My
Hi!
For years of using MFS I presumed, that it used virtual memory -- RAM
and swap to store the file system -- using RAM for speed of MFS and swap
when RAM was needed by others.
When I moved to mdconfig, I figured I have to use ``-t swap'' for the
same effect, but it seems, I was wrong --
