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From: aspgasd@cid.aes.doe.ca (Alain St-Denis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Default Swap Partition
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Date: 14 Sep 90 16:19:48 GMT
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Is there any special reason why we can't have the default swap partition on
whatever disk we would like.

I know we can do it using the PROM's "swap" environment variable.  But this
variable is not permanent in the PROM.  So we would have to reset it at
each boot.

Our systems never swapped anything, but since their load will increase in
the next few months, we thought that it would be more efficient if the swap
space resided on another disk. Is it that unreasonable?
-- 
Alain St-Denis
Centre informatique de Dorval
Environnement Canada
astdenis@cid.aes.doe.CA
(514) 421-4697