From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 12 05:08:23 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA15538 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 05:08:23 -0800 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA15532 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 05:08:17 -0800 Received: from g386bsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22318; Sun, 12 Mar 95 14:07:25 +0100 Received: by g386bsd.first.gmd.de (OAA10643); Sun, 12 Mar 1995 14:09:21 +0100 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199503121309.OAA10643@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: vm_pageout -- out of swap To: root@tippy.cybernetics.net (Chris Madison) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 14:09:21 +0059 (MET) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Chris Madison" at Mar 11, 95 09:00:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1119 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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