From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 18:02:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E51637B401 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:02:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE5A643F93 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:02:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnmills@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 16201 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2003 01:02:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([216.27.162.100]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 8 Aug 2003 01:02:16 -0000 Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h7819VC02672; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 21:09:31 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 21:09:30 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills X-X-Sender: jmills@localhost.localdomain To: FreeBSD-questions In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030807191211.104aeee8@192.168.0.12> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: How can I check for swap space? (4.8-Release) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John Mills List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 01:02:18 -0000 Mike, Freebies - Thanks for the help. On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 07:16 PM 8/7/2003 -0400, John Mills wrote: > >Freebies - > > > >I just installed 4.8-Release from CDs and let the installer divide my disk > >automatically. Things are acting as though I have little or no active swap > >space. > > > >2. How can I check what I got? (No joy yet from 'fdisk' on that.) > > > cat /etc/fstab > will show you what gets mounted at boot time. > mount > pstat -T > and disklabel My box has 48 MBy RAM and the automatic installer gave me 80MBy of swap, which does seem to be mounted and used (if a bit small given today's code). I will mostly run services and ssh console sessions, so that might be enough. However I also wanted to run some lightweight X11 setup so I installed 'fvwm2' and have a 'mostly working' XF86Config. When [ordinary-user] I execute 'startx' the system gradually fills all of RAM and swap then locks up the X-server. Granted my space is small, but this still looks wrong to me. My '~/.xinitrc' is a one-liner: "exec fvwm2". Any ideas what's happening? TIA. John Mills john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu