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- Subject: Swapfile won't grow
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- From: wasfy@perdita.gac.edu (Michael Wasfy Nicolas Ibrahim)
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 00:37:45 GMT
- Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College
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- Hello,
-
- I own a mono station with an internal 105 meg disk. I have dedicated the 105
- as a swapdisk according to the instructions in NeXT Answers. It functions
- properly to a point but will not allow the swapfile to grow above 30 meg. That
- is my machine generates a number of these errors in /usr/adm/mesgs when the
- swapfile is only 30 megs:
-
- Nov 14 01:12:12 localhost mach: vnode_pager: /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile is
- full.
- Nov 14 01:18:15 localhost mach: vnode_pager: /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile is
- available again.
-
- I think that the operating system has even killed processes (preferences often
- dies at approximately the same time) to free up space when this limit is
- reached. Everything in the swaptab is commented out so no highwater mark is
- set and I assume the swapfile should be able to use the entire disk. Anyone
- have any ideas what is wrong? Any help would be appreciated. I'm using 3.0,
- if it's important.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Michael Ibrahim
- wasfy@nic.gac.edu
-