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
: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
: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
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
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 sus
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 --
