From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 21:20:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA10866 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 21:20:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA10857 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 21:20:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-121.laker.net [208.0.233.21]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id AAA19966; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 00:19:15 -0400 Message-Id: <199809030419.AAA19966@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "HW Wong" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 00:19:37 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.00.1500) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Out of Swap Space Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 02 Sep 1998 20:46:15 PDT, HW Wong wrote: >I planned to run 1000 processes. I have modified the maxusers to 100 and >run the 1000 processes. After finished running 1000, the server hang and >error message:"out of swap space" and "out of memory" Sure, add more swap space by either adding another disk drive, expanding the size of your present swap space (not easy if none of your drives have any free space), or using a swapfile (not as good a solution as adding another drive). See man pages: swapon and swapfile(vnconfig) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message