From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 23 11:15:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4487037B401 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:15:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from spectraweb.ch (29.244.186.195.dial.bluewin.ch [195.186.244.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C7F543FB1 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:15:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pcservi@spectraweb.ch) Received: from saturn.spectraweb.ch (localhost.spectraweb.ch [127.0.0.1]) by spectraweb.ch (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h1NJIYsk025362; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 20:18:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pcservi@spectraweb.ch) Received: (from martin@localhost) by saturn.spectraweb.ch (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1NJIWnU025361; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 20:18:32 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: saturn.spectraweb.ch: martin set sender to pcservi@spectraweb.ch using -f Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 20:18:32 +0100 From: Martin Schweizer To: Willie Viljoen Cc: Martin Schweizer , Martin Schweizer , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kill while compiling release 4.7 Message-ID: <20030223191832.GA25342@spectraweb.ch> Reply-To: Martin Schweizer Mail-Followup-To: Willie Viljoen , Martin Schweizer , Martin Schweizer , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030223151428.GA16747@spectraweb.ch> <200302231735.57137.will@unfoldings.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <200302231735.57137.will@unfoldings.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Willie How I do add more swap space? Am Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 05:35:57PM +0200 Willie Viljoen schrieb: > On Sunday 23 February 2003 17:14, Martin Schweizer wrote: > > In the same time it occurs a "out of swap" error in /var/log/messages b= ut > > df output seem like normal, enough of space on all slices. > > What is going wrong? >=20 > df doesn't show swap space, it only shows information for filesystems.=20 > FreeBSD does not use (by default) an on-filesystem swap file such as MS= =20 > family systems do, it uses a seperate partition as swap space. >=20 > To check how your swap space is being used, you may view the output from= =20 > pstat -T >=20 > Be advised the to do a make world reliably, you will almost always need= =20 > atleast 128MB of swap on systems with average physical memory, and atleas= t=20 > 256MB if your system has low physical memory. >=20 > Other workarounds could be to perform the build process in single user mo= de,=20 > sothat no other applications are using memory, but look at swap space=20 > first. >=20 > Will --=20 Regards Martin Schweizer PC-Service M. Schweizer; Gewerbehaus Schwarz; CH-8608 Bubikon Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22; http://www.pc-service.ch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message