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From: ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Lanett)
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Subject: Re: Question on Sys 7 VM
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Date: 2 May 91 17:37:42 GMT
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paullu@cs.UAlberta.CA (Paul Lu) writes:


>Can somebody clarify if I _must_ allocate swap space while
>using virtual memory under System 7.0?

>That is to say, what if I'd rather use the VM to reduce
>fragmentation instead of for paged/swapped memory.  Can
>be done?

You can't turn on VM unless you have enough space on a hard drive, at which
point it will allocate all of it. I can't be sure when (or if) it does
defragging -- I used it on an empty drive and it just allocated one
contiguous block.

>Thank you,
>	...Paul Lu
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Mark Lanett						ml27192@uxa.cs.uiuc.edu
Software Tools Group, NCSA				mlanett@ncsa.uiuc.edu