Hello Willie

How I do add more swap space?

Am Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 05:35:57PM +0200 Willie Viljoen schrieb:
> On Sunday 23 February 2003 17:14, Martin Schweizer wrote:
> > In the same time it occurs a "out of swap" error in /var/log/messages but
> > df output seem like normal, enough of space on all slices.
> > What is going wrong?
> 
> df doesn't show swap space, it only shows information for filesystems. 
> FreeBSD does not use (by default) an on-filesystem swap file such as MS 
> family systems do, it uses a seperate partition as swap space.
> 
> To check how your swap space is being used, you may view the output from 
> pstat -T
> 
> Be advised the to do a make world reliably, you will almost always need 
> atleast 128MB of swap on systems with average physical memory, and atleast 
> 256MB if your system has low physical memory.
> 
> Other workarounds could be to perform the build process in single user mode, 
> sothat no other applications are using memory, but look at swap space 
> first.
> 
> Will
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