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- From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Swapfile won't grow
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 15:45:34 GMT
- Organization: University of Houston
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- In article <1eenkpINN3kp@news.gac.edu> writes:
- #
- #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.
- #
- #Michael Ibrahim
- #wasfy@nic.gac.edu
-
- It seems that you have the hiwater mark set to 30M in the /etc/swaptab
- file. Remove the entry for hiwat=xxxxxx and then reboot. You should then
- be able to use all the disk for swapping.
-
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