On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:13:49 -0700 "b. f." <bf1...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> ??? Who is giving them that credit? This isn't new. You already have > some control over swapping via several oids: > > vm.swap_enabled > vm.disable_swapspace_pageouts > vm.defer_swapspace_pageouts > vm.swap_idle_enabled > vm.swap_idle_threshold1 > vm.swap_idle_threshold2 > etc. > > See, for example, tuning(7). These have been around for ages (well, > at least since June 1996). You can also build your kernel with: > > options NO_SWAPPING > > which takes precedence over these settings. That option has been > around even longer. Linux has corresponding features, although they > didn't always work well on older kernels. It looks like the best explanation of NO_SWAPPING is http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1067315+0+archive/2003/freebsd-current/20030413.freebsd-current I found it after attempting to trim a powerpc kernel to see just how much I could leave out - it looks like it's not possible to leave out support for swapping. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
