24 Apr
2018
24 Apr
'18
5:45 a.m.
On 4/23/2018 6:07 PM, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
On 23 Apr 2018, at 21:47, Grant
And the cretinism was that this was mid 2000s: if you had machine that was paging the
answer was to buy more memory not to arrange for faster swap space: it was solving a
problem that nobody had any more.
Wow, I was going to refute this, as I don't ever remember seeing any
Solaris box do this. However, a Solaris 8 x86 vanilla install on VMware
I did recently does indeed have swap on the first cylinders (see below).
A Solaris 7 x86 install does not exhibit this behavior. Now I'm
wondering if Solaris 9 does it. A Solaris 10 box I have access to has
swap after root, not before.
# format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 22166 alt 2 hd 15 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 0
selecting c0d0
Controller working list found
[disk formatted, defect list found]
Warning: Current Disk has mounted partitions.
FORMAT MENU:
disk - select a disk
type - select (define) a disk type
partition - select (define) a partition table
current - describe the current disk
format - format and analyze the disk
fdisk - run the fdisk program
repair - repair a defective sector
show - translate a disk address
label - write label to the disk
analyze - surface analysis
defect - defect list management
backup - search for backup labels
verify - read and display labels
save - save new disk/partition definitions
volname - set 8-character volume name
!<cmd> - execute <cmd>, then return
quit
format> part
PARTITION MENU:
0 - change `0' partition
1 - change `1' partition
2 - change `2' partition
3 - change `3' partition
4 - change `4' partition
5 - change `5' partition
6 - change `6' partition
7 - change `7' partition
select - select a predefined table
modify - modify a predefined partition table
name - name the current table
print - display the current table
label - write partition map and label to the disk
!<cmd> - execute <cmd>, then return
quit
partition> pri
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 22166 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 1113 - 3704 1.17GB (2592/0/0) 2449440
1 swap wu 3 - 1112 512.18MB (1110/0/0) 1048950
2 backup wm 0 - 22166 9.99GB (22167/0/0) 20947815
3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
7 home wm 3705 - 22166 8.32GB (18462/0/0) 17446590
8 boot wu 0 - 0 0.46MB (1/0/0) 945
9 alternates wu 1 - 2 0.92MB (2/0/0) 1890