Date: thu, 11 oct 2001 12:59:36 -0600 From: Farooq Mela <farooq@whatthefuck.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Machine never uses swap after adding memory. Message-ID: <200110111802.f9BI2Ln62321@catalpa.forest.net>
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Hello, I have a machine set up with 512Mb of ram and one gigabyte of swap space. I recently added another 512mb of ram. This machine runs certain programs which use a large amount of memory, and I noticed that programs would have memory allocation failures, and that the swap space is not being used at all! Is this to be expected? I noticed tuning(7) states that there should be at twice as much swap space as physical memory, but is this a requirement? Or is there some sysctl that I have to mess with to fix this issue? It doesn't seem logical to me that a machine cannot use any swap space because there is an equal amount of swap space and memory. -Farooq (please CC your responses to me, I am not subscribed to -questions@) _________________________________________________ free e-mail, message boards, chat, and more... http://www.whatthefuck.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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