From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 13:42:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.telestream.com (mail.telestream.com [205.238.4.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA96B37C0CE for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:42:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keith@mail.telestream.com) Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by mail.telestream.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA15956; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:42:43 -0700 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:42:43 -0700 (PDT) From: To: Ariel Burbaickij Cc: Alfred Perlstein , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to extend swap ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If I remember correctly doing what I sent will extend it. Not the actual size if the existing but will allow for say a 128 meg swap to look and act as if it's a 256M swap. The only difference being that doing it the suggested way makes it have to go through the file system when the specified swap space is accessed. I do know that if you run 'top' after doing that it will show up as the sum of the two. Keith ================================= Keith W. At the helm My non work related site www.cydonia.net ================================= On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > * Ariel Burbaickij [000727 11:53] wrote: > > > I plan to upgrade my system to 128M , currently i have 128M of swap and > > > would extend it it is enabled by the fact that i have rather many unused > > > > > > place in my /usr and /home partion. How to do it ? Does parted work under > > > fbsd ? > > > > You can configure freebsd to swap to a file, see the 'vnconfig' manpage. > > > > -Alfred > > > Thank you but > as far as I can remember I have not asked whether is it possible to swap > to a file but rather if is it possible to extend swap partition. > > I have written vnconfig meanwhile 3 questions > 1)>How to specify the maximal size of the swap file ? > 2)>What penalties in spped of access must one bear due to acess > through FS interface ? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message