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From: jdh@bu-pub.bu.edu (Jason Heirtzler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: swapping in IRIX 3.2 -- how does it work?
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Date: 7 Dec 89 01:14:36 GMT
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Can someone explain how swapping works in IRIX 3.2?

It doesn't look like swap space is being allocated on the disk
until it's actually necessary to swap a process out.  This seems
different than 4.{2,3} BSD, which wants to allocate space on the
swapping device as you allocate physical memory.  No?

        # /etc/swap -l
        path               dev  swaplo blocks   free
        /dev/dsk/dks0d1s1 22,33      0 102256 102256
        /dev/dsk/dks0d2s0 22,64      0 102256 102256

Does IRIX interleave swapping between multiple disks to take full
advantage of the increase in I/O that is possible?

jdh

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