Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 14:23:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Mike Holliday <mholliday@lind-waldock.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swap Slice Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980513142234.1690I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <355978A5.30022F12@lind-waldock.com>
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On Wed, 13 May 1998, Mike Holliday wrote: > I have FreeBSD running on a test machine. a Pentium 100MHz with 104 megs > of ram. I have set the swap slice to 48 megs, but everytime I run > Xwindows I get a swat_pager out of memory message. I cannot understand > why this would happen, I run Linux with a smaller swap slice and half > the ram and never gotten a swap error. Any help would be great. If you can, run top or swapinfo continuously while X is starting and see if it really is running out of swap or if the problem is something else. 50MB of swap probably isn't enough. You want more like 100MB. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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