Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!dino!atanasoff!heins From: heins@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Leeland Heins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Swapping and Ultrix 3.0 Message-ID: <1343@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> Date: 17 Aug 89 19:33:01 GMT References: <1792@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: heins@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (Leeland Heins) Organization: Iowa State U. Extension Service, Ames, IA Lines: 38 In article <1792@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> gary@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Gary Faulkner) writes: >This is not documented anywhere, but I wonder if it is possible anyway. > >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? Bleagh. You don't want to swap over a net. It will seriously hose performance both of your local machine and the network throughput. I'd say you'd be better off blowing away some of the stuff you don't use often on the / or /usr partitions and accessing them across the net in the rare instances you need them. You could then shrink the /usr partition and enlarge the swap space. We generally blow away as much stuff as we can on systems with small drives and use compress on as much stuff as possible that we do keep. Compress can buy you quite a lot of space sometimes. Really you'd be better off just biting the bullet and getting another drive or replacing the RD54 with a larger drive... Painful to the pocketbook but worth it in the long run. >Gary Faulkner >National Center for Supercomputing Applications >University of Illinois > >Internet: garyf@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu > >Disclaimer: I've only stated my opinion, not anyone elses. //|||\\ "Attack of the killer Lee Heins, EXNET Programmer //-O-O-\\ mutant techno-hippies Iowa State U. Extension || v || from Hell" heins@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu || === || ...!hplabs!hp-lsd!atanasoff!heins || --- || /// `|' \\\ Disclaimer: I speak for myself only.