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From: rang@europa.ics.uci.edu (Roger P. Ang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Few questions about NetBSD
Date: 7 Feb 1996 02:20:33 GMT
Organization: UC Irvine, Department of ICS
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Reply-To: rang@ics.uci.edu (Roger P. Ang)
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In article <4f7lck$4eo@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>,
Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
>E. Durmin (eka@stack.urc.tue.nl) wrote:
>> - I've heard that NetBSD uses a just little bit more memory than Linux...
>> I've downloaded top (top-3.3) and tried to start top.
>> It doesn't start... it says that there was no memory left...
>> Do I really have no memory left or is the swap partition not in use?
>> Does 'swapon -a' turns on the swap partition or is NetBSD automatically
>> turning on the swap-partition?
>
>AFAIK, NetBSD uses your swap-partition per default, you don't have to care.
Yes, 'swapon -a' is run in /etc/rc (I think, or in /etc/rc.local).
However, you have to make sure the swap partition is listed in
/etc/fstab. I don't think the install script does that (only sets up
root and /usr partitions in /etc/fstab).
Roger P. Ang (rang@laputa.ics.uci.edu)
Irvine? Where's Irvine? Grad student at the
In the heart of the Orange Curtain. Dept. of Information & Computer Sci.
Oh no! The poor fool. Univ. of California, Irvine. USA