On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Lucky Green wrote: > > > I compiled a kernel with "options NO_SWAPPING", yet CURRENT still > > attempts to allocate swap space: > > NO_SWAPPING has nothing to do with not allocating swap space. It prevents > swapping of upages and stack pages only. > > Unfortunately, NOTES' description of NO_SWAPPING says that it disables > swapping without explaining what swapping is (it is just swapping of > upages and stack, and has nothing to do with generic VM paging). > NO_SWAPPING is documented mainlly in the commitlog for the change that > added it:
Perhaps a kind comitter could modify NOTES to help make users aware that NO_SWAPPING does not disable swapping of memory to disk and to look to man rc.conf for information about the latter? Thanks, --Lucky _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
