Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:42:29 -0700 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: out of swap space Message-ID: <200201261642.g0QGgT868534@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <003401c1a671$e7801250$faa0b542@noc>
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:01:08 -0500 "alexus" wrote:
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| hi
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| is there a way to increase size of swap space?
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| i have 512mb of ram and 512mb of swap space
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| i had 256mb of ram before so i created 512mb of swap space
| now i put another 256mb in and i'm still running out of space
|
| so i was asking if there is a way to increase size of swap space?
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You want to spread your swap over all the drives in the box. So allocate one
or more partitions on each drive. The rule of thumb that swap should be
twice the size of ram. But on a busy server you want enough ram to avoid
swapping at all.
It is posible to configure swap in a file by using a combination of
vnconfig and swapon but swap configured this way is much slower than raw
partition swap.
Good Luck
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Chris Fedde
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