From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 14 10:14:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C9714BFC for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 10:14:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.4] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 11n352-0004BJ-00; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 17:04:44 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.092 #1) id 11n352-00009S-00; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 17:04:44 +0000 Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 17:04:44 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Forrest Aldrich Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap files? Message-ID: <19991114170444.A577@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <4.2.1.19991114113505.00a9b5a0@216.67.12.69> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.2.1.19991114113505.00a9b5a0@216.67.12.69> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Forrest Aldrich wrote: > We have a 2.2.8 system which is in production, and is running out > of swap. We see a lot of signal 11 kills with apache (the latest > stuff, too). I wonder if FreeBSD can do swap files. Much like > Solaris can... you use a command to create a special file, and > hand it off to swap. man vnconfig. I haven't tried this, but it looks like it can do what you want (assuming it's not something new since 2.2.8). -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message