Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 10:02:36 -0700 From: Fred Condo <fred@condo.chico.ca.us> To: Richard B Mahoney <rbm49@it.canterbury.ac.nz> Cc: Subscribers to FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to increase swap. Message-ID: <20010728100236.E17672@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> In-Reply-To: <20010728190701.A443@it.canterbury.ac.nz>; from RBM49@student.canterbury.ac.nz on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 07:07:01PM %2B1200 References: <20010728190701.A443@it.canterbury.ac.nz>
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On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 07:07:01PM +1200, Richard B Mahoney wrote:
> Dear Readers,
>
> I've just cannibalised a couple of elderly 486's for their memory,
> and knocked up an early pentium to a whopping 72mg. Trouble is
> that it started off life with only 40Mg and 85Mg swap.
>
> Is there an easy way to increase the swap to say 160Mg? I'm sure
> this question has been asked before, but for the life of me I
> can't track down a suitable answer.
man vnconfig
man vn
Those will let you configure a regular file as additional swap. A
better solution for a production machine would be to repartition your
drive to have a larger swap partition.
You may have to compile a new kernel with pseudo-device vn.
Suggested command:
vnconfig -c -T -S 75m /dev/special_file_to_use /path/to/regular/file
Then you would use swapon /dev/special_file_to_use to add the 75 megs
of swap to your existing 85, yielding 160.
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