Re: Alpha SWAP space limits???

Michal Jaegermann (michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca)
Wed, 26 Nov 1997 12:00:18 -0700 (MST)

Michael Larocque wrote:

> > Follow that with 'man 2 swapon' for details - as the man sez. :-)
>
> Yup, that's the first thing I did 'way back when' when I first noticed
> this. ;-> The message on boot is something like:
>
> Enabling swap: 256MB (Priority -1)
>
> Since the man page says that priority is a value between 0 and 32K,
> why is a *negative* number being reported?

This most likely means that a priority is not set (or you are getting an
accidental sign extension somwhere :-). Would have to dive into sources
to be really sure.

Michal

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