Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA10374; Fri, 29 Sep 95 22:51:25 EDT Received: from colossus.cse.psu.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA14724; Fri, 29 Sep 95 22:50:57 EDT Received: by colossus.cse.psu.edu id <78580>; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 22:46:31 -0400 Received: from stealth.ecf.toronto.edu ([128.100.8.4]) by colossus.cse.psu.edu with SMTP id <78583>; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 22:41:57 -0400 Received: by stealth.ecf.toronto.edu id <6117>; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 22:29:29 -0400 From: Steve Kotsopoulos To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: /dev/swap acting weird? Newsgroups: comp.os.plan9 In-Reply-To: <95Sep28.131114edt.78394@colossus.cse.psu.edu> Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Message-Id: <95Sep29.222929edt.6117@stealth.ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 22:29:20 -0400 Sender: owner-9fans@cse.psu.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu >the swap number in /dev/swap has nothing to do >with the size of the swap partition. It is a >vector of reference counts used to mangae >page sharing on the disc. It is set by conf.nswap >and is allocated by swapinit/swap.c at boot time. >the number is reported so you can ensure the >device used to swap onto is big enough. If my swap device is not big enough, will swapping still work? If it is much larger than the size reported by /dev/swap, will the extra swap space be usable?