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To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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>Another point of interest: this machine has 16 MB of memory and 32 MB
>swap, but lately when I build a kernel (with debug symbols) I get a
>number of 
>
>Jun  4 12:27:25 freebie /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
>Jun  4 12:27:38 freebie /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
>
>I think these messages are bogus.  I can build kernels on another
>machine (running -stable), with only 8 MB memory and 32 MB swap, and I
>don't have any trouble.  Is there any way to monitor swap space usage?

   It sound like you don't have any swapspace configured. Look at the output
of pstat -s.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project