From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 14 12:22:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n7c.san.rr.com (dt054n7c.san.rr.com [24.30.152.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D0F1506D for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:22:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt054n7c.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04005; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:21:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <382F19D7.AF0BCFB2@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:21:43 -0800 From: Doug Barton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0927 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Forrest Aldrich Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap files? References: <4.2.1.19991114113505.00a9b5a0@216.67.12.69> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. Yes. There is an excellent section on this in the handbook, available on the web site. It takes you step by step through the whole process. I recently did this myself, and I can vouch for what's there. Good luck, Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message