Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 23:54:13 +0530 From: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> To: Jacob S <stormspotter@6Texans.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Running out of memory Message-ID: <427A64CD.7020301@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050505095927.26da64e9@jacob.6texans.net> References: <20050505095927.26da64e9@jacob.6texans.net>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090609000807080709040607 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 5/5/2005 20:29, Jacob S wrote: >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 I originally made the swap the same size as 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 >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > My box has 2GB of physical RAM and 4 GB of swap spread across 3 SATA drives. I havent seen any lockups. Regards S. -- --------------090609000807080709040607--
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