[3208] in Release_Engineering
The RS/6000 build machine swap space.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu May 5 17:56:16 1994
Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 17:56:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: rel-eng@MIT.EDU
This is just a note to remind you that the standard RS/6000
configuration of 48 meg of swap space ("paging space" in IBM parlance)
will not be enough.
That number should probably double.
This can be done either by enlarging the current swap partition, or by
adding a second swap partion from another drive.
I recommend adding a second partition. Enlarged partitions cannot be
shrunk, and
it is ALWAYS a good idea to leave slack in the root volume group.
If the swap space is not enlarged Andrew will not build all the way through.
Andrew builds things that are ostensibly shared libraries. RS/6000's
never flush their cached shared libraries, and that sucks up swap space.
We may discover we need to perform /etc/slibclean before every wash.
(You must be root to do this.)
-wdc
