docs/55277: [patch] Update tuning man page to reflect recent swap changes by phk
Roderick van Domburg
r.s.a.vandomburg at student.utwente.nl
Tue Aug 5 13:20:20 UTC 2003
>Number: 55277
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] Update tuning man page to reflect recent swap changes by phk
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Aug 05 06:20:16 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Roderick van Domburg
>Release: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
University of Twente
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD gog 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Mon Aug 4 15:35:46 CEST 2003 roderick at gog:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GOG i386
>Description:
The tuning man page should reflect the fact that there no longer is an
upper limit to the number of swap devices.
(A previously submitted bug report appears to have been lost somewhere
along the way.)
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- /usr/src/share/man/man7/tuning.7.old Tue Aug 5 12:42:56 2003
+++ /usr/src/share/man/man7/tuning.7 Tue Aug 5 12:43:01 2003
@@ -45,8 +45,7 @@
later on if you add more memory to your machine.
Finally, on larger systems
with multiple SCSI disks (or multiple IDE disks operating on different
-controllers), we strongly recommend that you configure swap on each drive
-(up to four drives).
+controllers), we strongly recommend that you configure swap on each drive.
The swap partitions on the drives should be approximately the same size.
The kernel can handle arbitrary sizes but
internal data structures scale to 4 times the largest swap partition.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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