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From: nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Help!  Altos 5.3.1 fork is failing!
Summary: Adding swap space may be difficult
Message-ID: <1989Oct18.044725.24247@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 18 Oct 89 04:47:25 GMT
References: <506@oglvee.UUCP> <4219@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn)
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Mundelein, IL
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In article <4219@cuuxb.ATT.COM> dlm@cuuxb.UUCP (Dennis L. Mumaugh) writes:
...>The ONLY solution is to increase swap by either increasing a partition
>or by adding swap with the
>	/etc/swap -a ...
>command.  

I used to have the line
	swap -a /dev/dsk/1s2 0 16592
in /etc/rc2.d/S10swap, for automatic installation of extra
swap space on my second drive.  This seemed to work ok... but
if a large enough process was swapped out to actually
make reference to it, I would start to see garbage in the
printout of 
	ps -ef
even though the processes in question worked fine.  This is with
uport 386; unfortunately, I cannot recall whether the release was
3.0e or its predecessor.  I concluded that, at least in microport's
implementation, swap -a is unhappy when called with space
on another drive than the primary one.  I finally broke down and
remade my disk partitions.

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