Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 13:33:04 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running out of memory Message-ID: <200505051333.05098.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <20050505095927.26da64e9@jacob.6texans.net> References: <20050505095927.26da64e9@jacob.6texans.net>
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On Thursday 05 May 2005 09:59 am, 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 I originally made the swap the same 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 What is it that you're doing that would use up so much RAM and swap? Was the high swap usage expected? Andrew Gould
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