Poul-Henning Kamp wrote this message on Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:04 +0200: > In message <Law14-F97JswFCHOzyf0000896a_at_hotmail.com>, "Ahmed Al-Hindawi" writes > Programs like cp(1) uses mmap(2) to copy things, so if you cp(1) a big > file, it is not uncommon for some programs to end up on swap. Until they Only for files up to 8megs in size. I was meaning to ask if we should incrase this limit. line 136 of src/bin/cp/utils.c: if (S_ISREG(fs->st_mode) && fs->st_size <= 8 * 1048576) { > are used again, they will not get paged in. I often see the getty's for > the vty's and similar junk on my swap space. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."Received on Sat Jul 26 2003 - 14:17:37 UTC
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