Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 09:59:27 -0500 From: Jacob S <stormspotter@6Texans.net> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Running out of memory Message-ID: <20050505095927.26da64e9@jacob.6texans.net>
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I've got a server that keeps running out of memory and crashing. It has 1GB of swap and 1GB of ram. I originally made the swap the same size as the ram, as my previous experience with *nix machines was that when swap is double the size of ram, the computer is almost totally unuseable for at least 30 minutes whenever the computer needs to clean out swap. Has anyone else seen this problem, or is it safe for me to add another GB of swap? Also, I made the mistake of partitioning all the space on the hard drive, with only 1GB set aside for swap. How big of a performance hit would it be to use a swap file instead of a swap partition? Is there an easy (and safe!) way to resize partitions so that I could add in a second swap partition? TIA, Jacob
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