From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 27 06:43:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA26031 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 06:43:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from blinx.lizard.org (blinx.wms.co.uk [194.159.247.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA26026 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 06:43:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from darrylb@localhost) by blinx.lizard.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA00608 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 14:43:17 GMT From: Darryl Bowler Message-Id: <199610271443.OAA00608@blinx.lizard.org> Subject: tin and swap space To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 14:43:16 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Whenever I run tin it seems die. When viewing /var/log/messages I get this error Oct 27 13:35:52 blinx /kernel: pid 166 (rtin), uid 1002, was killed: out of swap space Oct 27 13:35:52 blinx /kernel: pid 166 (rtin), uid 1002, was killed: out of swap space Somehow swap space hasnt been released, maybe due to the fact that someone has not exited tin correctly. I temporary solved the problem by using the swapon command, however it seemed to want a file /dev/sd0s1b, which did not exist until I made it with MAKEDEV. (swapon -a) Tin now works this way, but is this a valid solution to this problem, how I view the swap space been used and by what process (vmstat??? maybe?)? How do I release swap space? Regards Darryl.