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Subject: Re: out of swap space 
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:13:19 -0500
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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
>


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