From: David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] New disk, i/o error
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:56:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111017135636.0e9d3f1c@wks-ddc.exosec.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b8c5797c94d45b58033847b47953676e@quintile.net>
> > Why did prep create a 512MB swap
> > partition when I have 2GB RAM?
>
> good question, though on a positive note swap doesn't work anyway
> (except on the 9front form) so I would delete it as if the machine
> starts to swak it could wedge.
>
> this is not such a pain as it might appear, swapping makes performance
> so miserable its not really worth having, especially given how cheap a
> few GB of RAM is these days.
The swap is only enabled in /bin/termrc and it's not usual to have
a swap partition on a terminal.
The swap partition is 512 MB simply because it's the maximum size
specified in /sys/src/cmd/disk/prep/prep.c
--
David du Colombier
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-17 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <CAEaiYYwtJPmt-utC12NwucXQhJ6kKs0CzBXZRT6PU=fCZnjpbA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-16 15:20 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-16 15:51 ` slash
[not found] ` <CAEaiYYxsDmZ_O8N0BwK5Ch071NGbgrb_MyAnupxCyWgRioSTrw@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-16 17:29 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-16 19:19 ` slash
2011-10-16 20:13 ` slash
[not found] ` <CAEaiYYwfHD0d+SyTLqVVi-si=knjSqH6FKP61pkR-XRo5ixegA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-16 20:40 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-17 1:54 ` slash
2011-10-17 7:44 ` David du Colombier
2011-10-17 10:23 ` Steve Simon
2011-10-17 11:17 ` slash
2011-10-17 12:15 ` David du Colombier
2011-10-17 11:56 ` David du Colombier [this message]
2011-10-17 15:43 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-10-17 16:15 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-17 16:46 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
[not found] ` <CAEaiYYys==oFZ7Umr4SD+rT6wtRo=j4K6wd0950gU94cGiR6kw@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-17 3:28 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-16 20:43 ` Steve Simon
2011-10-19 11:48 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-10-16 14:11 slash
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20111017135636.0e9d3f1c@wks-ddc.exosec.local \
--to=0intro@gmail.com \
--cc=9fans@9fans.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).