From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 11 18:14:42 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA03022 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 18:14:42 -0800 Received: from tippy.cybernetics.net (tippy.cybernetics.net [198.80.51.150]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA03014 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 18:14:38 -0800 Received: (from root@localhost) by tippy.cybernetics.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id VAA06558; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 21:00:51 GMT Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 21:00:46 +0000 () From: Chris Madison To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: vm_pageout -- out of swap In-Reply-To: <199503111717.JAA16839@netcom20.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello all, In the past three weeks I have been installing 2.0R and MANY ports! I was running Linux with the then latest kernel patch. I have a 30M swap space and 8M of ram. I am having a problem 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:-( A vmstat right after produces: procs memory page disks faults cpu r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr f0 w0 w1 in sy cs us sy id 0 3 0 69924 68 30 3 4 2 34 273 0 0 151 550 84 56 21 9 70 Should that many process take up all of vm??? At boot up time swap is "turned on", or at least the message says it is. Is there something more I can do, besides buying more mem at this time:-) Thanks Chris ----------------------------------------------------------- root@tippy.cybernetics.net | Tippy is now running cmadison@cybernetics.com | FreeBSD cmmadiso@uncc.edu | 2.0 ----------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cybernetics.net/users/cmadison/homepage.html