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.


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