Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 14:09:21 +0059 (MET) From: Andreas Schulz <ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> To: root@tippy.cybernetics.net (Chris Madison) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vm_pageout -- out of swap Message-ID: <199503121309.OAA10643@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950311204616.6522A-100000@tippy.cybernetics.net> from "Chris Madison" at Mar 11, 95 09:00:46 pm
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> of running out of vm. Mostly while I am in X and have a few > processes running. Just now I had slip, netscape, 3 xterms, axe, > and clock active while ft was extracting. When directing netscape to > another page, it was killed bye running out of vm:-( Look at the swap space usage with "swapinfo", this gives more info that "vmstat" to see how full your swap space is and to see if it is mounted :-). Look if you are running some unnecessary daemons you don't need. If you don't have a printer online kill the lpd. If you don't read mail on this machine, kill sendmail :-). If you don't need nfs, check if the nfsd or nfsiod. If you are working with a default route you don't need to run routed. And built a custom kernel if you are running with a generic kernel now. For a "small memory" :-) machine like yours this also helps. Use the GENERIC kernel as a template and throw out all drivers you don't need. ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe
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