From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 19 04:47:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA27367 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 04:47:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from superior.mooseriver.com (superior.mooseriver.com [208.138.27.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA27360 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 04:47:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.mooseriver.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA23885; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 04:46:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgrosch) Message-ID: <19981119044633.A23863@mooseriver.com> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 04:46:33 -0800 From: Josef Grosch To: Mirror Beastie , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: how to i increase swap space ? Reply-To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com References: <3653F44F.A50AEDFF@askas.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <3653F44F.A50AEDFF@askas.co.za>; from Mirror Beastie on Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 12:34:56PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 12:34:56PM +0200, Mirror Beastie wrote: > hello > a while back i asked some questions about running out of swap and got > excellent > answers (thanks) ... this leads to my next question > what is the best and simplest/safest way to increase swap ? > suppose i have (installed) a fully allocated large hdd with 60% > utilisation and a > couple of old 270 mb hdds lying around - do i just increase swap on the > existing > drive (if so, how do i do this ?) ... or do i add these older drives to > the other ide > controller and define them as swap .. (again, if so, how do i do this > ?) A search through the FAQ will give you the answer you are looking for. Try http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ126.html#126 Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 3.0 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message