Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!stc!root44!hrc63!nwh From: nwh@hrc63.co.uk (Nigel Holder Marconi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: /dev/swap - possibility of it being a ramdisk Message-ID: <476@hrc63.co.uk> Date: 11 Dec 87 10:09:05 GMT References: <712@qetzal.UUCP> <16869@topaz.rutgers.edu> Organization: GEC Hirst Research Centre, Wembley, England. Lines: 12 Keywords: /dev/swap Summary: depends on your system ? I have just added some extra memory to a Sun 3. Unfortunately, it did not increase the usable amount of virtual memory. I have been informed (not by Sun I hasten to add), that 4.x will only allocate memory up to the disk swap space size. Adding more memory will speed things up but will not increase your total usable virtual memory size (this is achieved by increasing the swap space). I was also informed that system V does not inforce this type of restriction. Nigel Holder UK JANET: yf21@uk.co.gec-mrc.u ARPA: yf21%u.gec-mrc.co.uk@ucl-cs