Kernel Building and config
Louis Brune x403
suntan!tots!asimov!louis at sun.com
Sat Apr 8 01:30:21 AEST 1989
Moderator,
As you know from experience, having a large total swap area on two
separate drives does improve performance. I posted our means of obtaining
this primarily because it was long overdue for me to make at least a
piddling contribution to a resource I value so highly.
The line:
config vmunix root on rf0 swap on rf0 and rf1
was pasted from the config file which configged with no errors and
produced that machine's current working kernel. A similar line:
config vmunix root on rf0 swap on rf0b and rf0d
is in the corresponding file for this host.
Since a copy of /usr/etc/config was not included in the additional
distribution from our disk controller vendor, I suppose it's a 3.5 vs.
4.x glitch. The "rf" refers to the Ciprico RF3400 ESDI controller, but I
don't think anything from that distribution is known at config time.
None of our /etc/fstab files reference the swap partition (rf0b) on
the same drive as the root.
I'm relatively new at this, and I'm (happily?) constrained to avoid 4.x
for now, but I submit that my config file is not "wrong", but only
different or perhaps suited to an older system.
[[ Okay. I won't argue with success. I didn't realize that you were
running 3.x. By the same token, you didn't say which version you were
running. You gave a "blind" answer and I responded. By the way, are you
sure you are getting all your swap space? Use "/etc/pstat -s" and double
check the amount. --wnl ]]
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