Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: mr@racal-itd.co.uk (Martin Reed) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: swapping over nfs Keywords: SunOS Message-ID: <3871@kalliope.rice.edu> Date: 7 Jun 89 15:23:50 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 18 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 34, message 4 of 7 Our experience is that taking a /export/swap partition to 111% "full" is fine, and I can't think of a good reason why not. I have noticed that swap files have the sticky bit set. I know that SunOS4.0 kernel code does something with this but haven't work out what, as yet. More generally, it seems to me that very little research has been performed by informed individuals on tuning the Berkeley Fast File System in the modern environment (i.e. large disks, faster CPU and controllers). Or, if they are, they're not publishing. Surely somebody out there wants some glory! :-). Martin Reed, Racal Imaging Systems Ltd +----------------------------------------------------------+ |uucp: mr@ritd.co.uk, uunet!ukc!ritd!mr, sunuk!ritd!mr | `Just hold |Global String: +44 256 469943 Fax: +44 256 471492 | these two |Paper: Rankine Road, Basingstoke, Hants, England, RG24 0NW| wires...' +----------------------------------------------------------+ #include