Subject: Re: Adjusting swap handling in rc.d
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/06/2001 23:58:18
Sounds okay.
David Brownlee wrote:
> There are two rc.d entries for swap:
> swap1 - all blk devices
> swap2 - any swap on network filesystems
>
> This causes problems for low memory diskless machines as they
> can run out of VM before swap2 is reached.
>
> One proposal would be to add a 'fail silently if add swap fails'
> option to swapctl (-q), and to use this in swap1, and add another
> option to not complain if any listed devices were already in use
> as swap (similar to mount -a)
>
> swap1 could either be:
> swapctl -A -t blk
> swapctl -A -t noblk -q
> or
> swapctl -A -q
>
> The former is the smallest change from the current behavior - it
> would just attempt to mount any swap on network filesystems.
>
> The latter would allow for swap to be put on filesystems not in
> $critical_filesystems_beforenet, and picked up by swap2.
>
> How does this seem?
>
> --
> David/absolute -- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --
>
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