From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 11: 9:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 053DE37B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:09:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f25J7Fr10652; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 14:07:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3AA3E416.797C91B6@iowna.com> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 14:08:06 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: czr Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swap error References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG czr wrote: > > Last night I was compiling MySQL and all of a sudden i recieved an error > that I had run out of swap space and this doesnt seem right. I have never > dealt with this but I am curious if there is a command that I can check > the status of my swap partition. I want to make sure that it is active > because I have a pretty slim install of FreeBSD-4.2 Release. "pstat -T" will give you the quick look. "top" also displays useful information about swap usage/availability (and in real time, so you can watch it while you're compiling to see what happens) -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message