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From: geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] install "out of physical memory"
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:01:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ebe9fa06c3f2185523de140087923223@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d3530220609171340m1b6b156erd138325867d4b2b7@mail.gmail.com>

It's not automatic; you need to add something like

	swap /dev/sdC0/swap

to cpurc or cpurc.local.  Others feel that there are serious bugs in
the swapping (paging) code but I've had good luck with it.

If you expect to swap regularly, you should keep any local file
systems on different disks from your swap space, or performance will
suffer badly when you swap.  It's also possible to swap to a file
server (e.g., `swap /n/other/swap') but you'll want to use switched
Ethernet if you do that.  If it's possible, it's almost certainly a
better idea to add more RAM to your machine.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-17 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-17 14:06 chuckf
2006-09-17 18:31 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-17 19:13   ` Chuck Foreman
2006-09-17 19:22     ` Russ Cox
     [not found]       ` <ee9e417a0609171222v1163c0d5k49987948781fc714@mail.gmail.co m>
2006-09-17 20:05         ` Chuck Foreman
2006-09-17 20:33           ` Russ Cox
2006-09-17 20:40             ` John Floren
2006-09-17 21:01               ` geoff [this message]
2006-09-17 21:03                 ` John Floren
2006-09-17 21:23                   ` geoff
2006-09-17 21:10                 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-09-17 21:18                   ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-17 21:20                     ` Bruce Ellis
2006-09-17 23:32                       ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-18  1:20                         ` geoff
     [not found]             ` <ee9e417a0609171333t228a677eh39d1db121c39ab21@mail.gmail.co m>
2006-09-17 22:35               ` Chuck Foreman
2006-09-18  3:34                 ` Burton Samograd
     [not found]                   ` <7155ede00609172034w1d7ee768paff34c7577d6178a@mail.gmail.co m>
2006-09-18 18:28                     ` Chuck Foreman
2006-09-17 19:23 Chuck Foreman

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