jdh@bu-pub.bu.edu (Jason Heirtzler) (12/07/89)
Can someone explain how swapping works in IRIX 3.2?
It doesn't look like swap space is being allocated on the disk
until it's actually necessary to swap a process out. This seems
different than 4.{2,3} BSD, which wants to allocate space on the
swapping device as you allocate physical memory. No?
# /etc/swap -l
path dev swaplo blocks free
/dev/dsk/dks0d1s1 22,33 0 102256 102256
/dev/dsk/dks0d2s0 22,64 0 102256 102256
Does IRIX interleave swapping between multiple disks to take full
advantage of the increase in I/O that is possible?
jdh
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