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Date:      Wed, 15 Jan 2003 21:54:54 -0600
From:      "Frank Li" <frank19991@hotmail.com>
To:        grog@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Increase memory limit ?
Message-ID:  <F90GZvbwep09lVCnPL6000180aa@hotmail.com>

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Thanks, Greg,

>From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
> > Top shows:
> > Mem: 180M Active, 21M Inact, 32M Wired, 13M Cache, 35M Buf, 656K Free
>
>This shows that you have much more than 128 MB of memory in the
>machine.

I checked it again (by rebooting it and seeing its booting messages, stupid 
method, any good method ? uname -a did not give me the physical memory 
size).  The physical memory is actually 256MB.

>And how much swap?

I forgot.  Any command to check that ?

Here is the partition info though:
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a    198399    80463   102065    44%    /
/dev/ad0s1f    198399    30485   152043    17%    /tmp
/dev/ad0s1g  42032558  7019929 31650025    18%    /usr
/dev/ad0s1e    198399    28338   154190    16%    /var
procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc

I vaguely remember it's about 2 times of physical memory as recommended by 
BSD.  So it should be about 512MB.  How much should I set it, in this case 
now ?  I need a lot of memory.

> > I tried to increase the above limits but failed. They seem to be already
> > the maximum.
>
>No, you need to set them in /etc/login.conf.

Here is what I see in this file.  It seems already maximum.

	:cputime=unlimited:\
	:datasize=unlimited:\
	:stacksize=unlimited:\
	:memorylocked=unlimited:\
	:memoryuse=unlimited:\
	:filesize=unlimited:\
	:coredumpsize=unlimited:\
	:openfiles=unlimited:\
	:maxproc=unlimited:\
	:sbsize=unlimited:\
	:priority=0:\

>The real issue is why your simulation is dying.  Do you have any
>messages in /var/log/messages indicating that you're out of swap?

Yes.  Here is what I found in the log:

Dec 30 01:05:05 machi /kernel: pid 28666 (simulation), uid 1000, was killed: 
out of swap space
Dec 30 01:05:05 machi /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed

So, how can I increase swap space?

Thanks very much!

Frank

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