Subject: Re: Swap sizes vs. physical memory.
To: Richard Rauch <rkr@rkr.kcnet.com>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baea.com.au>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/05/1999 17:03:00
According to Richard Rauch:
>
>Hm.  Ouch.  That's what I was afraid of.  I really didn't want to
>repartition my drive just because I'm adding memory, though.  (I thought
>that, even pre-UVM, under 1.3, there were options about explicitly
>disabling the swap---e.g., for diskless workstations.)
>

Diskless workstations normally swap over nfs.  I think you can disable
the swap but I suspect that it is only really recommended for a
bootstrap not a normal running kernel.

>
>From the sound of it, you aren't sure what the current kernel requires,
>though.  Is that correct?
>

Correct.


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