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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

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