I decided to get back to running NetBSD on a new computer with a spare drive:
Just now I ran /bin/ksh configure for lesstif. The configure operation alone too 45min.
(WHY!?) I have 64GB RAM, and a 1TB SATA harddrive.
I redid the install this time using cylinders. Swap is 39000 cyl. According to
swapctl -g -s this is 298GB (UGHH!) is there a nice way to trim the swap partition?
ALSO, is there a point where adding swap to a mechanical HD becomes a liability?
Has anyone messed with swap on a RAMDISK? I have 64GB RAM -- thats part of the
idea for so much RAM. How would I carve out a 32GB RAMDISK and make that the swap
device? The idea being that a RAM-to-RAM transfer is about 10,000x as fast as a
RAM-to-mechanical-disk transfer?
Any advice/ideas will be greatly appreciated. If it matters, I am running NetBSD-9.99.x.
This is not a working/production system just yet. I can experiment, for the moment.