Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!ncis.tis.llnl.gov!lance.tis.llnl.gov!carlson From: carlson@lance.tis.llnl.gov (John Carlson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: swapfile size and hanging Message-ID: <615@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> Date: 15 Nov 89 07:46:31 GMT References: <613@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> Sender: news@ncis.tis.llnl.gov Distribution: usa Organization: LLNL Lines: 27 In article <613@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> carlson@lance.tis.llnl.gov (John Carlson) writes: >I'm trying to avoid this hanging by (1) setting the hiwater mark >(w/ mach-swapon) and (2) NFS mounting another swap file. I'll >let you know what happens. Here's what I did: (1) Created /etc/swaptab.local (2) added mach_swapon -v -f /etc/swaptab.local -a > /dev/console 2>&1 to /etc/rc.local -- This did not seem to work until I sh'ed /etc/rc.local by hand. Nothing echoed on start up. When I sh'ed by hand, it did echo correctly. (3) Made appropriate changes to /etc/exports file on a Sun. This seemed to work fine for a while (I saw the remote disk light up a few times!), but when I logged in this morning, the system froze when the NeXT dock symbol came up. After trying several mechanisms (Command-Command-`, Command-`, Power Off) I did an Alternate-Left Command *, which rebooted the system. John Carlson carlson@tis.llnl.gov