Re: swapon vs savecore dilemma

From: Aaron Wohl (freebsd_at_soith.com)
Date: 09/02/03

  • Next message: Petri Helenius: "ATAng raid not being detected" 
    To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "Doug White" <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 23:01:45 -0600

    I usualy have a number of swap partitions since the max size of a swap
    partition is kind of limited. I was thinking of changing it to do swapon
    twice. The first time early in the boot would skip mounting any swap
    areas that had kernel core dumps. Then after the savecore it could do
    swapon again to mount the rest of the swap areas. Either that or have
    swaping start to allocate space at the oposite end of the swap space than
    savecore uses.
    _______________________________________________
    freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list
    http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current
    To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"

  • Next message: Petri Helenius: "ATAng raid not being detected"

    Relevant Pages

    • Re: No swap partition ?
      ... >> An advantage when using swap partitions rather than swap ... It is a 289GB raid formated as ext3. ... > In these days of 40+GB disks, ...
      (comp.os.linux.development.system)
    • cant swapon second partition after swapoff, overwrite /dev/urandom, swapon
      ... I wanted to wipe my swap partitions, so I did swapoff /dev/sda7, then ... With swapon /dev/sda7, I get the following error message: ... I noticed afterward that mkswap made a swap that was considerably smaller ... Don't have the error message available. ...
      (Debian-User)
    • Re: disk failure with swap RAID-0
      ... > The machine will boot fine, just will not have swap at all. ... > swap partitions instead of one RAID-0? ... but it used to be that the kernel would use the ... "I trust the Democrats to take away my money, ...
      (Fedora)
    • Re: [SLE] Maximum swap size
      ... Also, IIRC, you can have ... >> multiple swap partitions, so terabyte swap space is now a possibility, ...
      (SuSE)
    • Re: No swap partition ?
      ... > An advantage when using swap partitions rather than swap ... > ran out of memory while running fsck. ... And it will depend, hardware vs software RAID. ...
      (comp.os.linux.development.system)