Re: swapping algorithm in 2.1.91

Andrew J. Anderson (andrew@db.erau.edu)
Sat, 28 Mar 1998 23:28:27 -0500 (EST)


On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Russell Coker - mailing lists account wrote:

> You can use /proc/sys/vm/freepages after it's booted to change the
> settings. Of course this relies on the initial boot scripts executing
> in a reasonable amount of time.

That's the problem -- with 4 megs it took 25 minutes just to get partway
through rc.sysinit before I gave up. I guess I could make the first line
of that script make the changes, and see if that helps any. Plus I'm
testing on a machine with swap -- I guess I could swap to the unused part
of the boot floppy on the term server...<shudder>...

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