From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] signals and blocked in I/O
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 09:07:13 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712050905250.99186@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201712041636.vB4GaFEp017803@freefriends.org>
On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> Most modern systems let you use a regular old file in the filesystem for
> swap space, instead of having to repartition your disk and using a
> dedicated partition. I'd be suprised if your *BSD box didn't let you do
> that too. It's a little slower, but a gazillion times more convenient.
Doesn't it have to be a contiguous file (for DMA), or is scatter/gather
now supported?
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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-04 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-01 15:44 Larry McVoy
2017-12-01 15:53 ` Dan Cross
2017-12-01 16:11 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-01 16:18 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-01 16:33 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-01 17:26 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-01 19:10 ` Chris Torek
2017-12-01 23:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-01 21:33 ` Bakul Shah
2017-12-01 22:38 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-01 23:03 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-12-01 23:09 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-01 23:42 ` Bakul Shah
2017-12-02 0:48 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-02 1:40 ` Bakul Shah
2017-12-03 13:50 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-12-04 16:36 ` arnold
2017-12-04 16:58 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-12-04 17:19 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-05 2:12 ` Bakul Shah
2017-12-04 22:07 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2017-12-04 22:54 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-04 22:56 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-05 0:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-05 0:58 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-12-05 2:15 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-05 2:54 ` Clem cole
2017-12-02 14:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-12-01 16:01 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-01 16:24 ` Warner Losh
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