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From: weimer@garden.kodak.COM (Gary Weimer (588-0953))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: More than one swap device ?
Keywords: swap
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Date: 21 Mar 91 19:38:20 GMT
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In article <1991Mar21.132725@anusf.anu.edu.au>, mbl900@anusf.anu.edu.au
(Mathew BM LIM) writes:
|> I am the administrator of a soon to be installed Fujitsu VP2200 running
|> UXP (Fujitsu's SysVR4). I have been trying to plan our file system structure
|> and swap space allocation.

I don't know how universal it is, but SunOS (bsd derived) has swapon(8)
for adding swap space (If you don't have it, you don't need to know how
it works, so I won't explain it). If this is used, swaping is
interleaved (supposedly equally) between the devices.

weimer@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )