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Subject: Re: making larger swap
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From: Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net>
Date: 15 Nov 1997 15:46:01 -0600
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george vagner <kf7nn@airmail.net> writes:
> i recently have been plagued by programs crashing and
> i get a message saying out of swap space.
> 
> is there any way to increase this swap space without conpletly
> reinstalling. my swap space is 32 meg.

If you have some spare space in one of your filesystems, you can use
the vn pseudo-device to swap to a file.  I suspect this is in the
handbook, or at least in FreeBSD mailing list archives.

-Dave