aspgasd@cid.aes.doe.ca (Alain St-Denis) (09/14/90)
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
olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) (09/15/90)
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.