[12795] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 7.7K: Sun swap partition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ezra Peisach)
Tue Oct 25 19:26:59 1994
To: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, vrt@MIT.EDU, miki@MIT.EDU, jweiss@MIT.EDU, lavin@MIT.EDU,
cluster-managers@MIT.EDU, karen@MIT.EDU, epeisach@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Oct 1994 19:02:05 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 19:26:53 EDT
From: Ezra Peisach <epeisach@MIT.EDU>
If I remember correctly, the swap on a DS5000/XX is different than
the DS3100 machine. The reason was the larger disk size available.
There was a TRB meeting a few years back to discuss partitioning
of the disk (i.e. separate partition for the afs cache, etc).
I am sure the discussion was archived in the discuss meeting, but I
think the argument was something like we wanted 3x memory for swap.
(conventional wizdom at the time). In addition, we realized that
applications were going to keep growing (motif UI, etc), so
room was allowed for future machines that might have more memory.
Looking at your partition, could someone have made a mistake in K vs.
blocks?
Ezra
