Swap additions

Dear friends, I have Debin Linux (1.3.1) and when I installed I setup a 128MB swap partition. Unfortunately, mirror.pl requires heaps of memory when mirroring large ftp sites and as I was initializing time stamps it ran out of memory. I would like to add a swap file so that I can initiate

Re: Swap additions

David M [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could some of you guys show me a step by step procedure on how to setup an additional 128MB swap file? Or alternatively where I can find this info. Check out man mkswap. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: Swap additions

David M writes: Dear friends, I have Debin Linux (1.3.1) and when I installed I setup a 128MB swap partition. Unfortunately, mirror.pl requires heaps of memory when mirroring large ftp sites and as I was initializing time stamps it ran out of memory. I would like to add a swap file

Re: Swap additions

Actually, if you put use_files=true in your mirror defaults file or the parameter file for the mirror job, mirror will create temporary dbm files instead of building so much in memory. This seems to run faster. If you have trouble with a mirror run, the tmp files don't always get deleted but you