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From: doelz@urz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: SWAPPER/System performance
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Date: 5 Oct 88 06:55:00 GMT
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*Problem*:
On an IRIS 4D/80 with 370 megs hard disk and 12 megs of memory, the
swap space is 50 megs, and the command swap -l displays that there are 
usually over 80% free. Big applications in the batch tend to crash, 
dupreg - insufficient memory to allocate ... pages, however, these
are running nicely online. 

*Question*:
How to make a job swap on the disk if others request more memory? I can't
imagine that only the physical memory of the core may be used in the batch.

Any comments/suggestions/flames welcome.

Reinhard 

  
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