Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 20:18:32 +0100 From: Martin Schweizer <pcservi@spectraweb.ch> To: Willie Viljoen <will@unfoldings.net> Cc: Martin Schweizer <info@pc-service.ch>, Martin Schweizer <pcservi@spectraweb.ch>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kill while compiling release 4.7 Message-ID: <20030223191832.GA25342@spectraweb.ch> In-Reply-To: <200302231735.57137.will@unfoldings.net> References: <20030223151428.GA16747@spectraweb.ch> <200302231735.57137.will@unfoldings.net>
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Hello Willie How I do add more swap space? Am Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 05:35:57PM +0200 Willie Viljoen schrieb: > On Sunday 23 February 2003 17:14, Martin Schweizer wrote: > > In the same time it occurs a "out of swap" error in /var/log/messages b= ut > > df output seem like normal, enough of space on all slices. > > What is going wrong? >=20 > df doesn't show swap space, it only shows information for filesystems.=20 > FreeBSD does not use (by default) an on-filesystem swap file such as MS= =20 > family systems do, it uses a seperate partition as swap space. >=20 > To check how your swap space is being used, you may view the output from= =20 > pstat -T >=20 > Be advised the to do a make world reliably, you will almost always need= =20 > atleast 128MB of swap on systems with average physical memory, and atleas= t=20 > 256MB if your system has low physical memory. >=20 > Other workarounds could be to perform the build process in single user mo= de,=20 > sothat no other applications are using memory, but look at swap space=20 > first. >=20 > Will --=20 Regards Martin Schweizer <info@pc-service.ch> PC-Service M. Schweizer; Gewerbehaus Schwarz; CH-8608 Bubikon Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22; http://www.pc-service.ch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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