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| author | das <das@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-02-24 08:52:06 +0000 |
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| committer | das <das@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-02-24 08:52:06 +0000 |
| commit | 859f2bea3a00209d69505d75da1d515653b77b13 (patch) | |
| tree | 79c054cd6f2cbb21fad784c3156c8ee34a2b9e42 /sbin/swapon | |
| parent | 9f419c5edf00e02a97a43f46dc63e834a7e61c97 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-859f2bea3a00209d69505d75da1d515653b77b13.zip FreeBSD-src-859f2bea3a00209d69505d75da1d515653b77b13.tar.gz | |
Clarify about NSWAPDEV, add a DIAGNOSTICS section pointing to
swapon(2), and correct HISTORY.
Reviewed by: mike (mentor)
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/swapon')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/swapon/swapon.8 | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/swapon/swapon.8 b/sbin/swapon/swapon.8 index cb6cd00..65e7c73 100644 --- a/sbin/swapon/swapon.8 +++ b/sbin/swapon/swapon.8 @@ -60,8 +60,10 @@ utilties are used to control swap devices in the system. At boot time all swap entries in .Pa /etc/fstab are added automatically when the system goes multi-user. -Swap devices are interleaved and kernels are typically configured -to handle a maximum of 4 swap devices. There is no priority mechanism. +Swap devices use a fixed interleave; the maximum number of devices +is specified by the kernel configuration option NSWAPDEV, which +is typically set to 4. +There is no priority mechanism. .Pp The .Nm swapon @@ -131,6 +133,9 @@ Output values in kilobytes. The BLOCKSIZE environment variable is used if not specifically overridden. 512 byte blocks are used by default. .El +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +These utilities may fail for the reasons described in +.Xr swapon 2 . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr swapon 2 , .Xr fstab 5 , @@ -155,4 +160,4 @@ utility appeared in The .Nm swapoff utility appeared in -.Fx 5.0 . +.Fx 5.1 . |
