Hi all, I'm creating a Knoppix-like FreeBSD release (live filesystem, runs
from CD) with 4.9 sources. I'm almost done, but I don't know what to do with
swap. I read somewhere that I must have a swap partition in my /etc/fstab,
can't this requirement be overridden?
And can I create a vn0 device
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 00:12, Daniela wrote:
Hi all, I'm creating a Knoppix-like FreeBSD release (live filesystem, runs
from CD) with 4.9 sources. I'm almost done, but I don't know what to do
with swap. I read somewhere that I must have a swap partition in my
/etc/fstab, can't
On Wednesday, 22 October 2003 at 0:52:35 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, my understanding of the bsdlabel process seemed correct:
1) modify swap partition size to be 281 less than what sysinstall
created the partition as
2) have the swap offset at 281 instead of 0
3) add vinum partition
For instance you have partition e with size=3142987 and offset
5242880, but the var volume uses sd len 3142987s driveoffset 524864s
drive rootdev. Why is it necessary for each subdisk to be 16 lower
then the partition it will be mapping?
Take /var for example. It's on partition e, which
So, my understanding of the bsdlabel process seemed correct:
1) modify swap partition size to be 281 less than what sysinstall
created the partition as
2) have the swap offset at 281 instead of 0
3) add vinum partition set to the size of c minus 16
4) have vinum partition offset at 16
I
wanted to make sure the
reference machine was setup correctly.
Was surprised to see that the vinum dumpconfig shows the offset for the
swap partition to be 265. Remember vaguely that it was supposed to be 281.
Do I have a misconfigured machine? The bsdlabel reports the offset to be
281
that the vinum dumpconfig shows the offset for the
swap partition to be 265. Remember vaguely that it was supposed to be 281.
Do I have a misconfigured machine? The bsdlabel reports the offset to be
281. The vinum.conf used driveoffset of 265s for swap - would think it
should have been 281s.
The machine
Hi,
Sanity check whether the mirrored vinum root drive is setup correctly. Going to setup two more machines the same way, so wanted to make sure the reference machine was setup correctly.
Was surprised to see that the vinum dumpconfig shows the offset for the swap partition to be 265. Remember
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, if you can spread it across multiple controllers, it can
speed things up.
Right.
But, generally I think that swap is used in
a serial manner, eg the first chunk gets used up before the
next one is started, etc.
That's
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, if you can spread it across multiple controllers, it can
speed things up.
Right.
But, generally I think that swap is used in
a serial manner, eg the first chunk gets used up before the
next one is started, etc
Hi, all
The documents on freebsd's website suggest that,
as a system grows, it's recommended for adding more
swap paritition to system. My questions are: Does
it mean adding another swap to disk or to slice ?
The disk structure:
ad0s1 -- ad0s1a / (boot from here
Hi,
Create a swap file system on a partition where you have excess space.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap0 count=128 bs=1m
chmod 600 /usr/swap0
mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /usr/swap0 -u 3
swapon /dev/md3
You can check the output of swapinfo to confirm. You will have to load the
swap file
Hi, all
The documents on freebsd's website suggest that,
as a system grows, it's recommended for adding more
swap paritition to system. My questions are: Does
it mean adding another swap to disk or to slice ?
The disk structure:
ad0s1 -- ad0s1a / (boot from here
Hi,
I've heard if there are many disks on one machine
it's good (in respect of performance) for adding swap
parition on multiple drive, what does this mean
(if that's true) ?
My box has six IDE drives two on primary, two on
secondary and two connected via IDE controller.
TIA,
pjn
Hi,
I've heard if there are many disks on one machine
it's good (in respect of performance) for adding swap
parition on multiple drive, what does this mean
(if that's true) ?
Well, if you can spread it across multiple controllers, it can
speed things up. But, generally I think
While attempting to perform a standard install, when commiting to write to
the Hard drive I get unable to create swap file-press enter or space to
continue but of course I tried to continue , completed the install but
initial boot 4.9 halted with bad super block magic number wrong
I have
hello all
While attempting to perform a standard install, when commiting to write to the Hard
drive I get unable to create swap file-press enter or space to continue but of
course I tried to continue , completed the install but on initial boot 4.9 halted
with bad super block magic number
On Saturday, 4 October 2003 at 0:14:03 -0400, Keith Baumgart wrote:
Ok, I'm not totally a newbie but, I'm definitely no expert in FBSD. When I
was doing my original install, it was on a p100 w/ 32 megs of ram, so I gave
myself a 1 gig swap partition to help alleviate some of the server load
Hello!
I have on one of my boxes too little swap partition to dumpon on it. Actually, it is
too little by several bytes
# swapinfo
Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type
/dev/da0s1b 1048448 100 1048348 0%Interleaved
/dev/da1s1b 10484480
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:04:14AM +0400, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
Hello!
I have on one of my boxes too little swap partition to dumpon on it. Actually, it is
too little by several bytes
# swapinfo
Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type
/dev/da0s1b 1048448
Ok, I'm not totally a newbie but, I'm definitely no expert in FBSD. When I
was doing my original install, it was on a p100 w/ 32 megs of ram, so I gave
myself a 1 gig swap partition to help alleviate some of the server load.
Now, I have moved this install to a AMD K6/2 500MHz with 512 megs of RAM
Sean Hafeez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
All things being equal, same hardware, same version of the same build
of 4.8, etc... I have one box with a kernel w/out DUMMYNET and one
with a kernel w/DUMMYNET. If I were to copy the DUMMYNET kernel to the
non-DUMMYNET would it work?
If they are
All things being equal, same hardware, same version of the same build
of 4.8, etc... I have one box with a kernel w/out DUMMYNET and one with
a kernel w/DUMMYNET. If I were to copy the DUMMYNET kernel to the
non-DUMMYNET would it work? The other issue I have is space. The system
is running off
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From: Edy Lie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 10:02 AM
Subject: FreeBSD and Hot Swap rebuild on SCSI disks.
Greetings,
I have setup the following:
FreeBSD 4.8 and using Adaptec 2100s for the SCSI RAID 5.
Currently there are 5
- Original Message -
From: Edy Lie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Micheal Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Hot Swap rebuild on SCSI disks.
Hi Michael,
Thanks for the reply. I have tried to search raidutil
: FreeBSD and Hot Swap rebuild on SCSI disks.
Hi Michael,
Thanks for the reply. I have tried to search raidutil in /usr/ports but
i could not find any.
Is that in FreeBSD ports or do i need to compile it manually from
somewhere ?
Thank you.
Best Regards,
Edy Lie
It's
]
To: Micheal Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Hot Swap rebuild on SCSI disks.
Hi Michael,
Thanks for the prompt response ... it was my bad to send you an email
before googling. :-)
I have managed to install
or is it a must to reboot and goto Adaptec 2100s SMOR
to rebuild? If latter is the only option it defects the purpose of HOT
SWAP capabilities.
Anyone using Adaptec 2100s on FreeBSD please share some informations on
how do you manage the array.
TIA!
Regards,
Edy
the
array on the fly or is it a must to reboot and goto Adaptec 2100s SMOR
to rebuild? If latter is the only option it defects the purpose of HOT
SWAP capabilities.
No, I don't think any such tool exists, and yes, it defeats the purpose.
If you find such a tool, please let me know so I can use
- Original Message -
From: Edy Lie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 10:02 AM
Subject: FreeBSD and Hot Swap rebuild on SCSI disks.
Greetings,
I have setup the following:
FreeBSD 4.8 and using Adaptec 2100s for the SCSI RAID 5.
Currently
Hi,
man swapon says:
BUGS
There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device. It is therefore
not possible to dismount swap devices which are mounted during system
operation.
Is that still a bug?
--
The Handbook explains how additional swap space can be added
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:28:54PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
Hi,
man swapon says:
BUGS
There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device. It is
therefore
not possible to dismount swap devices which are mounted during system
operation.
Is that still
Ceri Davies wrote:
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:28:54PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
man swapon says:
BUGS
There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device. It is
therefore
not possible to dismount swap devices which are mounted during system
operation.
Is that still
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:30:49PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
Ceri Davies wrote:
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:28:54PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
man swapon says:
BUGS
There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device. It is
therefore
not possible to dismount swap
Hello,
If I put in additional 256MB RAM module ontop my already 256MB system, don't I need to
increase the /swap partition size? Current swap is only at 512 (mem x 2). How do you
resize a partition inside a freebsd slice, btw?
Thanks in advance
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On Mittwoch, 20. August 2003 09:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
If I put in additional 256MB RAM module ontop my already 256MB system,
don't I need to increase the /swap partition size? Current swap is only at
512 (mem x 2). How do you resize
Hello,
If I put in additional 256MB RAM module ontop my already 256MB system,
don't I need to increase the /swap partition size? Current swap is
only at 512 (mem x 2). How do you resize a partition inside a freebsd
slice, btw?
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
Resizing a partition is a bit
If I put in additional 256MB RAM module ontop my already 256MB
system, don't I need to increase the /swap partition size?
No. In fact you will need less swap space now.
The 2xRAM rule-of-thumb makes very little sense.
-- Richard
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[EMAIL
I personally have no dedicate swap on the disk. I use vnconfig to mount a large
file for swap on my system.
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:57:11 +0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
If I put in additional 256MB RAM module ontop my already 256MB system, don't I
need to increase the /swap partition
'fvwm2' and have a 'mostly working' XF86Config. When
[ordinary-user] I execute 'startx' the system gradually fills all of RAM
and swap then locks up the X-server. Granted my space is small, but this
still looks wrong to me.
My '~/.xinitrc' is a one-liner: exec fvwm2.
Now it just says
dumped on ever-growing swap after first creating cache for the
100DPI fonts and while working on the 75DPI
echo *clock.render: false /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XClock
This did allow 'startx' to get past starting 'xclock', but the next thing
I tried, 'xterm', then repeated the fill-swap
Hello,
If my FreeBSD server show that 90% of swap space is being used,
is there a way to find out what is taking this space?
I think this is normal because of the algorithm used to determine
how swap is managed. Do some handbook and google reading.
jerry
Thank's
Ronan
Mike, Freebies -
Thanks for the help.
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote:
At 07:16 PM 8/7/2003 -0400, John Mills wrote:
Freebies -
I just installed 4.8-Release from CDs and let the installer divide my disk
automatically. Things are acting as though I have little or no active swap
At 07:16 PM 8/7/2003 -0400, John Mills wrote:
Freebies -
I just installed 4.8-Release from CDs and let the installer divide my disk
automatically. Things are acting as though I have little or no active swap
space.
2. How can I check what I got? (No joy yet from 'fdisk' on that.)
cat /etc/fstab
Freebies -
I just installed 4.8-Release from CDs and let the installer divide my disk
automatically. Things are acting as though I have little or no active swap
space.
1. What should I have gotten?
2. How can I check what I got? (No joy yet from 'fdisk' on that.)
3. How do I check current
Hello,
If my FreeBSD server show that 90% of swap space is being used,
is there a way to find out what is taking this space?
Thank's
Ronan
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services and ssh console sessions, so that might be
enough. However I also wanted to run some lightweight X11 setup so I
installed 'fvwm2' and have a 'mostly working' XF86Config. When
[ordinary-user] I execute 'startx' the system gradually fills all of RAM
and swap then locks up the X-server
At 07:16 PM 8/7/2003 -0400, John Mills wrote:
Freebies -
I just installed 4.8-Release from CDs and let the installer divide
my disk
automatically. Things are acting as though I have little or no
active swap
space.
2. How can I check what I got? (No joy yet from 'fdisk' on that.)
cat /etc
Ronan Lucio wrote:
If my FreeBSD server show that 90% of swap space is being used,
is there a way to find out what is taking this space?
'top' or 'ps aux | sort +4r' can show you the processes sorted by virtual memory
usage. VSZ means more than just swap, but this still is probably what you're
K Anderson wrote:
I am trying to create swap space for diskless bootted systems but it
doesn't seem to be working out.
Before the kernel panics the system reports reports
subnet mask 255.255.0 router 192.168.100.105 rootfs
192.168.100.105:/diskless_root swapfs
192.168.100.105:/conf
On Thursday 07 August 2003 06:16 pm, John Mills wrote:
2. How can I check what I got? (No joy yet from 'fdisk' on that.)
3. How do I check current memory usage (sim. 'free' in Linux)?
swapinfo will list your swap partition(s) and how much of each is
used.
% swapinfo
Device 1K-blocks
I am trying to create swap space for diskless bootted systems but it
doesn't seem to be working out.
Before the kernel panics the system reports reports
subnet mask 255.255.0 router 192.168.100.105 rootfs
192.168.100.105:/diskless_root swapfs
192.168.100.105:/conf/192.168.100.201/swap
Whenever I start up gnome I'm getting panics and reboots, until I got
wise and ran ``swapoff'' and started up gnome. No panics.
How can I check my swap parition in FreeBSD. I've used fsck and
badblocks on ext2 in Linux, but how do I check my FreeBSD swap?
-- mycr0ft
node /dev/ad0s1b -
my swap partition. How can this be? I know that in FreeBSD 5.x you don't
have to create device nodes by yourself as DEVFS is used for this...?
How to solve this problem
I am running 5.0 Release on an i386 Intel system. I have 256MB ram and in /etc/fstab
swap is called out for 492MB. How can I tell if this is mounted and in use? Mount does
not indicate swap (/da0s1b) is mounted.
I ask, as I cannot use dump to backup my raid. My raid is /dev/vinum/raid
hi,
I dont know if this has always been the case, but someone in our office (new
to FreeBSD) was trying to install 5.1 with the swap partion first. He tried
very hard for hours, but he couldnt get it to work (even after I told him try
having the swap partion second instead). Is it documented
In the last episode (Jun 13), JacobRhoden said:
I dont know if this has always been the case, but someone in our
office (new to FreeBSD) was trying to install 5.1 with the swap
partion first. He tried very hard for hours, but he couldnt get it to
work (even after I told him try having the swap
Hi all...
I found this ()
I have FBSD 4.7 system...is this article still ok or even the best way to go?
Any ideas welcome
Keith
==8 snip snip
Adding more SWAP space
I recently mined this info from the STABLE mailing list and thought it
would make a great mini-tutorial
Hi,
Hi all...
I found this ()
I have FBSD 4.7 system...is this article still ok or even the
best way to go?
Any ideas welcome
Keith
There's a specific chapter in the handbook on adding swap... which includes
a section on using a swapfile as you detailed:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc
help with this as well.
But the real reason for the email is this:
As instructed, I used my browser on another machine to go to https://host:1 and
was unsuccessful.
Here's what I found with a little poking around:
The used portion of the swap file continues to grow and grow, the size
Hi again.
I recently asked:
| Hi All.
|
| Anyone of you out there knows a simple way to calculate
| the swap space allocated by each process?
|
| I've got a 450 here, running an oracle database, that
| for some reason is eating up little by little all available
| swap space, until it crashes
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 06:28, sweetleaf wrote:
Is it possible to encrypt the swap in freebsd? I am new to freebsd,
having used openbsd for sometime and was just wondering if this feature
is available in freebsd.
I don't know if it is possible to encrypt swap. Even it would be possible
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:28:44PM -0600, sweetleaf wrote:
Is it possible to encrypt the swap in freebsd? I am new to freebsd,
having used openbsd for sometime and was just wondering if this feature
is available in freebsd. I would also like to know if freebsd supports
encrypted file
Is it possible to encrypt the swap in freebsd? I am new to freebsd,
having used openbsd for sometime and was just wondering if this feature
is available in freebsd. I would also like to know if freebsd supports
encrypted file systems?
Thanks and have a wonderful night.
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Hello,
I am running a system from a cdrom. There is no swap space
to be mounted unless I use a mfs system for swap.
I am getting message about
swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
Is there any way I can shut these off without creating
swap space?
Oh and who
Hey
why everything on my machine goes into RAM? i have always 87% ram taken by every
proccess running... i have 91 megs of ram what should i do? my swap is always
empty... is there some problem or how to fix that. i can't run lots of programs
because server gers jammed and works slow.. SSH
First, and before anything, you normally log in as root or are you just
trying to impress us?
Second, ram is a lot faster than using swap.
Third, the problem with the ssh trying to log in probably has to do with a
hostname resolving problem.
that is about it.
david
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002
- Original Message -
From: David Nicholas Kayal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 12:19:17 -0800 (PST)
To: Charlie Root [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ram swap
First . . .
[most of the top post snipped]
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Charlie Root wrote:
Hey why everything
What could cause 50% of the swap to be constantly 'in use' ?
bcall@flea(~/c-code)ttyp1 pstat -s
Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type
/dev/ad0s2b262016 132156 12986050%Interleaved
bcall@flea(~/c-code)ttyp1 uname -a
FreeBSD flea.bytecraft.au.com 4.7-RC
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:17:38PM +1100, Murray Taylor wrote:
What could cause 50% of the swap to be constantly 'in use' ?
[cut]
bcall@flea(~/c-code)ttyp1 ps ax
[cut]
Try ps axl which will show more information, such as memory use.
-tim
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1 0 2 0 4732 2000 select Ss?? 11:48.00
/usr/local/sbin/httpd
(selected output)
Note the difference between VSZ and RSS. VSZ is the amount of
memory that the process has mapped, RSS is what is physically in
memory. So parts are being dumped to swap as memory fills up.
Freebsd
of
the day several extremely memory loving programs which cause
paging/swapping to occur. I would like opinions on whether I would
notice an improvement if I moved the swap area (which lives on the SCSI
disk with the rest of the system) to the front of one of the IDE disks.
I intend to make a new slice
in the re-arrangements. I tend to run during the course of
the day several extremely memory loving programs which cause
paging/swapping to occur. I would like opinions on whether I would
notice an improvement if I moved the swap area (which lives on the SCSI
disk with the rest of the system
space in the re-arrangements. I tend to run during the course of
the day several extremely memory loving programs which cause
paging/swapping to occur. I would like opinions on whether I would
notice an improvement if I moved the swap area (which lives on the SCSI
disk with the rest
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sort of true, though real memory is still different from swap and a
busy system wth a lot of processes hanging around can use a lot of swap
even when it isn't killing real memory.
The fact that the system CAN or DOES use a lot of swap doesn't mean
clarabel /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
Nov 15 00:40:53 clarabel /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
Nov 15 00:40:53 clarabel /kernel: pid 108 (radiusd), uid 0, was killed:
out of swap space
I have removed most packages but it still hangs on the swap_pager error.
The swap space
15 00:40:53 clarabel /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
Nov 15 00:40:53 clarabel /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
Nov 15 00:40:53 clarabel /kernel: pid 108 (radiusd), uid 0, was killed:
out of swap space
I have removed most packages but it still hangs on the swap_pager error
To Add more Swap
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-sp
ace.html
But I think adding more swap is not the good solution.
You might need to find out what's happen to your swap.
Maybe BAD sectors. Good Luck.
|| -Original Message-
|| From: [EMAIL
Can I install FreeBSD without swap space or I can add swapfile later?
The goal is to make installation process easy.
Thank.
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On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 07:21:37AM -0800, Krissada Jindanupajit (FreeBSD-question)
wrote:
Can I install FreeBSD without swap space or I can add swapfile later?
The goal is to make installation process easy.
It's possible to install without a dedicated swap partition so long as
you have
Nov 15 00:40:53 clarabel /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
Nov 15 00:40:53 clarabel /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
Nov 15 00:40:53 clarabel /kernel: pid 108 (radiusd), uid 0, was killed:
out of swap space
I have removed most packages but it still hangs on the swap_pager
promulgating that lousy old 2xRAM rule of thumb.
Your total space is what should count; the issue should what total
space is needed, not what multiple of RAM is needed. Eg, if they have 1
GB RAM, they don't need 2GB swap. What is a good rule of thumb for
total space? I usually give newbies a number around
of RAM is needed. Eg, if they have 1
GB RAM, they don't need 2GB swap.
Sort of true, though real memory is still different from swap and a
busy system wth a lot of processes hanging around can use a lot of swap
even when it isn't killing real memory. Anyway, I have a couple of
systems with 1GB
Freebies -
How can I check the amount of RAM and swap memory in use (like the Linux
console command: 'free')?
Thanks.
- John Mills
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:34:50AM -0500, John Mills wrote:
Freebies -
How can I check the amount of RAM and swap memory in use (like the Linux
console command: 'free')?
top ?
Thanks.
- John Mills
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Now - I see I need to increase my swap partition. Do I have to wipe my
installation and start again?
it depend if you have free space on your hard disk, if so you can try growfs.
If not, you have to wipe your installation and start again :-(
good luck
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To: Julien Bournelle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: John Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD-questions
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Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: Checking RAM and swap use
Julien -
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Julien Bournelle wrote:
On Tue, Oct
Julien -
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Julien Bournelle wrote:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:34:50AM -0500, John Mills wrote:
How can I check the amount of RAM and swap memory in use (like the Linux
console command: 'free')?
top ?
blush
Thanks - I had been ignoring that part
Julien -
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Julien Bournelle wrote:
Now - I see I need to increase my swap partition. Do I have to wipe my
installation and start again?
it depend if you have free space on your hard disk, if so you can try growfs.
If not, you have to wipe your installation and start
Hello -
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, DaleCo Help Desk wrote:
Now - I see I need to increase my swap partition. Do I have to wipe
my
installation and start again?
#man swapon
SWAPON(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual
SWAPON(8)
NAME
swapon - specify additional device
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:37:13AM -0500, John Mills wrote:
Julien -
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Julien Bournelle wrote:
Now - I see I need to increase my swap partition. Do I have to wipe my
installation and start again?
it depend if you have free space on your hard disk, if so you can
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:47:08AM -0500, John Mills wrote:
Now - I see I need to increase my swap partition. Do I have to wipe my
installation and start again?
No. You can add extra file backed swap devices on the fly --- doesn't
even need a reboot. See vnconfig(8) for details
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:47:08AM -0500, John Mills wrote:
Now - I see I need to increase my swap partition. Do I have to wipe my
installation and start again?
No. You can add extra file backed swap devices on the fly --- doesn't
even need a reboot. See vnconfig(8) for details
Heya,
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:47:08AM -0500, John Mills wrote:
Now - I see I need to increase my swap partition. Do I have to wipe my
installation and start again?
I think the best solution would be: Add more RAM.
+ better performance (decreases swap used)
+ fast installation (total
At 11:05 PM 10.13.2002 -0400, Marlon Pabilona wrote:
Sir,
After a year having without problem, our freebsd machine experienced a hang
problem and found the message out of swap space in /var/log/messages. Our
proxy server has a 1G of mem and 128MB swap space. What are the common cause
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