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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Default Swap Partition
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Date: 15 Sep 90 01:43:51 GMT
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In <9009141619.AA01072@cidws03.cid.aes.doe.CA> aspgasd@cid.aes.doe.ca (Alain St-Denis) writes:

| 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

Just re-configure the kernel with the swap device you want.  See the
variable SWAPDEV in /usr/sysgen/system.  You might also want to read
the lboot and master man pages, etc., if you need more info.
--

	Dave Olson

Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.