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Date:      15 Nov 1997 15:46:01 -0600
From:      Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: making larger swap
Message-ID:  <85yb2pkezq.fsf@localhost.zilker.net>
In-Reply-To: george vagner's message of "Sat, 15 Nov 1997 10:35:02 %2B0000"
References:  <346D7AD6.28311305@airmail.net>

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george vagner <kf7nn@airmail.net> writes:
> i recently have been plagued by programs crashing and
> i get a message saying out of swap space.
> 
> is there any way to increase this swap space without conpletly
> reinstalling. my swap space is 32 meg.

If you have some spare space in one of your filesystems, you can use
the vn pseudo-device to swap to a file.  I suspect this is in the
handbook, or at least in FreeBSD mailing list archives.

-Dave



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