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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!ns1.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!tinguely From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Subject: Re: increasing virtual memory with swap files? Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login) Message-ID: <CCBKo9.quB@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 14:38:33 GMT References: <almCCAAvF.21L@netcom.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Organization: North Dakota State University Lines: 14 In article <almCCAAvF.21L@netcom.com> alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) writes: >Is adding RAM or adding/increasing swap partitions the only way to >increase virtual memory? Does x*BSD support swap files? If so, how are >they used? If not, can it be done and why isn't it? Thanks. right now the swap files are not being used, and swap partitions have to be defined in the kernel before being used. this allows the initialization routines to know how many swap blocks *could* be used and allows the routines to number them so they are spread out over the different drives. IMHO, there are other things in the VM that need to be fixed before adding swap files. --mark.