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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Lack of core & swap space causing problems
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Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 22:08:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 22 22:08:39 1987
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In article <9863@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
> Secondly, you may swap on more partitions than one. [...]
> Anyway, tell config to swap on *all* your disks;

	Is there any reason why you can't swap on more than one partition
on a single disk?  I know it sounds stupid (and probably leads to horrible
performance) but it might come in handy.  For a while, our single RA-81 vax
had a 15 Mbyte swap partition (ra0b) and a spare 7 Mbyte partition (ra0e).
We were constantly running out of swap space and I couldn't get psyched to
doing a full dump/reformat/restore to change the partitions.  It would have
been nice to be able to say "swap on ra0b and ra0e".

	Would that have worked?
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016