Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:17:02 PST From: "Bruce Pennypacker" <bpennypacker@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: swap space not being used? Message-ID: <19981211001702.15237.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Hi all, I'm seeing something I don't quite understand on a FreeBSD 2.2.7 mchine that we just set up. This machine is 300Mhz with 128MB RAM and 3 4.5gig SCSI drives. We intend to use this machine for a lot of data analysis & other grunt work, so we set it up with a decent amount of swap space. Each disk has a 250MB swap partition on it. When I tried to run a fairly memory intensive app (something that'll need about 300MB to run) the app choked after only a few seconds with a "Virtual memory exceeded in `new'" error. In monitoring the system using the top & sysinfo commands I was amazed to find that 0% of the swap space on all 3 drives is being used when the app ran out of memory. I'm fairly sure the swap partitions were set up properly - they're listed in /etc/fstab, swapper is running, etc. So why does it appear that the swap space isn't being used at all? I had more luck testing this app on an NT workstation with only 32MB RAM even though it eventually filled up the swap file entirely. -Bruce ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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