On 10/18/05, Alistar Erlas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a feature idea that might be interesting and I > think would be very useful. > > I think it would be an excellent feature to be able, > in addition to using a swap partition, also be able to > create files in a filesystem that can be used for > additional VM space, especially which can be created > while the kernel is running and a maximum size that > can also be configured during run time. I have run > into the problem of where the system has run out of VM > space on the system, but I would rather not have to > repartition. Users could for instance define swap > files on filesystems on flash memory sticks that you > plugin to USB ports. Instant memory upgrade. Or they > could set them up on remote filesystems. many > possibilities. Thank you, for your attention it is
I believe this is already in place. Is this maybe what you are looking for?: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html http://www.freebsddiary.org/swap.php _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
