Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 09:15:30 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Mohsin Rahman <mtech@buffnet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, rudi@askas.co.za Subject: Re: swap space problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811170914000.6774-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19981117103756.0091d470@buffnet.net>
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On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Mohsin Rahman wrote: > >> freebsd 2.2.6 32mb ram dx4 running x (fvwm2) and several netscape > >> communicator 4.04 browsers my 50 mb swap slowly fills up after a > >> couple days - a reboot removes the symptom shutting down netscape > >> frees up all but a couple of megs. Things are much worse if i run a > >> couple of mirrors. swap get full quicker > > > >That will do it. 82MB of VM isn't really enough for X + several > >Netscapes. Netscape is a memory hog. > > > >Next install give yourself at least 100MB of swap. You can never have too > >much swap and this comes from experience! > > > > Exactly how much swap can FreeBSD handle? I had 256M in my mailserver and > it kept ruuing out of swap space. I added an additional 1GB of swap and > ran into continuous problems like reebots and scsi hangs. I eventually > ended up taking the 1GB swap out, and thins are back to normal. Any idea? That sounds more like a disk problem than a swap system problem. If swap_pager runs into disk problems it'll keel over and die, so make sure those swap partitions are squeaky clean. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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