On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:04:54AM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: > >>>>> "Kris" == Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org> writes: > > Kris> In my quest for ever-more-insane things to do to panic package > Kris> build machines, I switched them over to use a 32GB swap > Kris> partition as a swap-backed md, in the hopes of improving build > Kris> times by cutting back on disk accesses. This seemed to work (I > Kris> wasn't sure you could use this much on i386, but the system let > Kris> me configure as much as 32GB), except two of them have locked > Kris> up. ps shows > > Not that I've looked at this, but isn't MFS constrained by 32 bit > pointers in i386? Yes, but apparently they're used for block-level indexing and not just byte-level. Kris
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