Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:13:19 -0500 From: "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com> To: "Chris Fedde" <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: out of swap space Message-ID: <003201c1a827$7724dce0$0d00a8c0@alexus> References: <200201261642.g0QGgT868534@fedde.littleton.co.us>
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how can i allocate another partition on live server? i mean i can't put another hard drive there.. due to i have planty of space on this drive can i somehow cut a little bit of / partition and make it add to swap? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Fedde" <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 11:42 AM Subject: Re: out of swap space > On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:01:08 -0500 "alexus" wrote: > +------------------ > | hi > | > | is there a way to increase size of swap space? > | > | i have 512mb of ram and 512mb of swap space > | > | i had 256mb of ram before so i created 512mb of swap space > | now i put another 256mb in and i'm still running out of space > | > | so i was asking if there is a way to increase size of swap space? > +------------------ > > You want to spread your swap over all the drives in the box. So allocate one > or more partitions on each drive. The rule of thumb that swap should be > twice the size of ram. But on a busy server you want enough ram to avoid > swapping at all. > > It is posible to configure swap in a file by using a combination of > vnconfig and swapon but swap configured this way is much slower than raw > partition swap. > > Good Luck > > -- > Chris Fedde > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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