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From: ji@cs.columbia.edu (John Ioannidis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Disabling swapping on PS2 AIX 1.1 (how?)
Keywords: swapping aix ibm
Message-ID: <1990Mar23.021257.13155@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 90 02:12:57 GMT
Reply-To: ji@cs.columbia.edu (John Ioannidis)
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
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Hello,

I'm trying to configure an PS/2 AIX 1.1 kernel so that it doesn't
swap.  With 16M in my machines, I don't see a reason why I should
bother with swapping (why, the default swap space size is something
like 4MB!!!).  However, the kernel insists on allocating swap space on
the swap device even though it's never going to *need* it. 

Has anyone done this before? How hard is it? If I don't have any swap
partitions on my disk, the kernel panics with the insulting message
"can't add a paging device".

Thanks in advance,

/ji

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