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32 .Nd Alternative memory disk driver
34 .Cd "altmem* at altmemdev?"
38 driver enables use of physical memory that is normally inaccessible by the
43 When an alternative memory disk device is present, this device is generally
44 preferred to hard disk-based swap space.
49 man pages for instructions on how to assign priorities to swap devices.
51 .Bl -tag -width /dev/raltmemXX -compact
52 .It Pa "/dev/altmem??"
53 block mode alternative memory disk devices.
54 .It Pa "/dev/raltmem??"
55 raw mode alternative memory disk devices.
64 device driver appeared in
67 .An Jared D. McNeill Aq jmcneill@NetBSD.org