jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) (02/09/91)
There was a bug in 1.0 that prevented people from using multiple swapfiles. Has it been fixed in 2.0? Jacob -- Jacob Gore Jacob@Gore.Com boulder!gore!jacob
lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) (02/12/91)
In article Has multi swapfile bug been fixed? jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) of : Gore Enterprises writes: There was a bug in 1.0 that prevented people from using multiple swapfiles. Has it been fixed in 2.0? [The following is an excerpt from NextAnswers QA355, as you can see they still think the bug is there -- pasc] This will enable paging to two files (based on the standard configuration of swaptab): /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile /private/vm/swapfile This might seem like A Good Thing, but it isn't. Last we knew, there was a (minor?) bug which prevented using multiple swapfiles successfully. (The bug is that if a mapped file spans swapfile boundaries, not-completely-predictable things can happen. To tickle the bug, though, the primary swapfile must fill up first.) Should be benign, really.