Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!rosevax!ems!shamash!umn-cs!umn-d-ub!rutgers!noao!mcdsun!mcdchg!chinet!sid From: sid@chinet.UUCP (Sid Grange) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Re: Memory Expansion and Swap Space Summary: Increasing swap space possible Keywords: 4mb 64k drams 256k drams swap space Message-ID: <1973@chinet.UUCP> Date: 11 Dec 87 04:10:13 GMT References: <107@lokkur.UUCP> <627@umbc3.UMD.EDU> Reply-To: sid@chinet.UUCP (Sid Grange) Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix Lines: 19 Posted: Thu Dec 10 22:10:13 1987 In article <627@umbc3.UMD.EDU> alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain) writes: >The word I got from ATT to modify swap space was... [ Stuff on modifying amount of swap space deleted ] >I would be interested to finding out what else you can do here, I think that >this is a shell script, so I'll try to tear apart my diagnostics disk some day. >If any one plays with this, please post your results. This does work. I increased mine to 6.5 megs with no ill effects. Using malloc, it checks out as being available. The program on the diag disk is not a shell script but a binary. If I recall, I just mounted it and read it. You might want to make a backup with fpcp (floppy copy) before you do this. --- Sid Grange ihnp4!chinet!sid, but that may change suddenly soon.. Safe sex is okay, just don't do it with a time lock vault at closing time.