Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 22:53:25 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Frank Li <frank19991@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Increase memory limit ? Message-ID: <3E277E35.9060507@mac.com> References: <F94MiUgjLuN4joBHChg00000ab3@hotmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Frank Li wrote: [ ... ] > Cool! I created an additional swapfile according to its instruction. > Everything is smooth. Just one thing not quite understood. > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap0 bs=1024k count=64 > > It actually created a 64GB swapfile. Hmm. Are you certain: 12-sec# dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/cache/bar bs=1024k count=64 64+0 records in 64+0 records out 67108864 bytes transferred in 18.790176 secs (3571487 bytes/sec) 13-sec# ls -l /var/cache/bar -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 67108864 Jan 16 22:44 /var/cache/bar ...since that should have created a 64 MB swapfile. > As we knew virtual memory space on 32bit bsd cannot exceed 2GB, > is 64GB for multiple processes/programs, or multiple users? The 2 GB of user-addressable virtual address space is per-process. Anyway, it sounds like you've made good progress. (Congratulations.) -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3E277E35.9060507>