Swapping and Ultrix 3.0

[George Robbins]

In article <1792 at garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> gary at mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Gary Faulkner) writes:
> 
> I have a VaxStation II with an RD54.  I currently swap to the "b" partition
> on this drive (16 meg).  I would like (need) more swap space without buying
> an additional disk drive.  My root and usr partitions are also on this drive,
> and basically full.  Is there ANY way I can swap to the "b" partition and also
> to a swap file on a remote machine? (in other words, is there any way to
> configure it that it thinks it is a diskless system, while still swapping
> locally?

It seems you might be able to do this, since the "swap-type" is maintained
on a per swap area basis.  That doesn't mean it isn't "broken" in some
excruciating way.  Also, assuming it did work, it might not give you the
"local" swapping effect you want, since the system supposedly attempts to
distribute swapping over all the swap areas to minimize seek bottlenecks.

You may want to also look at whether you are "wasting" swap area to an
unneccssary extreme - vmmin * gettytab entries can be expensive and you
may be able to cut things by playing with vmmin or getting rid of excess
login entries.  On the other hand, if you are trying to support numerous
copies of gnuemacs or windowing sillyness, tuning is pretty futile.

As others have suggested, getting another disk or a bigger drive is probably
the best long-term solution.  You'll be happier in all ways.  Third party
vendors will give you a much better deal than DEC for add-on drives.

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