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- From: hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp)
- Subject: Re: Swapfile won't grow
- References: <1eenkpINN3kp@news.gac.edu> <1ej16uINNev6@menudo.uh.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 11:11:16 GMT
- Organization: The Home of the Pilhuhn
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.111116.25837@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org>
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- sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes:
-
- >#I own a mono station with an internal 105 meg disk. I have dedicated the
- >#as a swapdisk according to the instructions in NeXT Answers. It
-
- >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.
-
- No, if you have a disk labeled as 'swapdisk', you don't have to fool
- around with /etc/swaptab. The information about the high water mark is
- in this case in /etc/rc.swap
- --
- Heiko W.Rupp Gerwigstr.5 7500 Kh'e 1 hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org +49 721 693642
- Ray's Rule of Precision:
- Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe.
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