From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 5 18:24:39 2005 Return-Path: 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 2CD9416A4CE for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 18:24:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5F2843D8E for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 18:24:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a41so392636rng for ; Thu, 05 May 2005 11:24:32 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; b=d7IVIBnp44nTs9/utUK/QBEoGvX/Y9ncK8SrnnezaBH3yr6OljBHo1NhwOGeh+IL6o19Xz4MJKfd33NBG0aHwgizV49KIiUTMFdhRE9mc0/oq7iBG5VhxXtvlVRFzrwqw8OvaV+Myu9cs4bKRB9uRnlrcQfc4JroyUmJ6iP039U= Received: by 10.38.74.10 with SMTP id w10mr413197rna; Thu, 05 May 2005 11:24:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?59.93.163.33? ([59.93.163.33]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 79sm1233287rna.2005.05.05.11.24.29; Thu, 05 May 2005 11:24:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <427A64CD.7020301@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 23:54:13 +0530 From: Subhro Organization: Indian Institute of Information Technology User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jacob S References: <20050505095927.26da64e9@jacob.6texans.net> In-Reply-To: <20050505095927.26da64e9@jacob.6texans.net> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------090609000807080709040607" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Running out of memory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 18:24:39 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090609000807080709040607 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 5/5/2005 20:29, Jacob S wrote: >I've got a server that keeps running out of memory and crashing. It has >1GB of swap and 1GB of ram. I originally made the swap the same size as >the ram, as my previous experience with *nix machines was that when swap >is double the size of ram, the computer is almost totally unuseable for >at least 30 minutes whenever the computer needs to clean out swap. > >Has anyone else seen this problem, or is it safe for me to add another >GB of swap? > >Also, I made the mistake of partitioning all the space on the hard >drive, with only 1GB set aside for swap. How big of a performance hit >would it be to use a swap file instead of a swap partition? Is there an >easy (and safe!) way to resize partitions so that I could add in a >second swap partition? > >TIA, >Jacob >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > My box has 2GB of physical RAM and 4 GB of swap spread across 3 SATA drives. I havent seen any lockups. Regards S. -- --------------090609000807080709040607--