emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (11/18/89)
Dave Hitz's article refers to creating swap files with mkfile (this is on a sun at least) and recommends not to use the -n option since that will lead to fragmented swapfiles. That's fine but -- space is a bit tight here, & various people use their machines differently. I'd really like to give most people on diskless 4m 3/50's a 16M swap file that has say 8M pre-allocated & filled w/whatever it takes to swap nicely, and leave the other 8M to grow dynamically just in case someone manages to need it. I don't see a way to do it with the tools provided, -- does this approach make sense, & what would it take to do it ? thanks --Ed