From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 11 10:57:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from catalpa.forest.net (catalpa.forest.net [216.168.37.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C8C437B40F for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 10:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pandora.forest.net (out.forest.net [216.168.63.85] (may be forged)) by catalpa.forest.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9BI2Ln62321 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:02:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200110111802.f9BI2Ln62321@catalpa.forest.net> Date: thu, 11 oct 2001 12:59:36 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Farooq Mela Subject: Machine never uses swap after adding memory. X-Mailer: whatthefuck.com web e-mail client (3.0.0915) [cg] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have a machine set up with 512Mb of ram and one gigabyte of swap space. I recently added another 512mb of ram. This machine runs certain programs which use a large amount of memory, and I noticed that programs would have memory allocation failures, and that the swap space is not being used at all! Is this to be expected? I noticed tuning(7) states that there should be at twice as much swap space as physical memory, but is this a requirement? Or is there some sysctl that I have to mess with to fix this issue? It doesn't seem logical to me that a machine cannot use any swap space because there is an equal amount of swap space and memory. -Farooq (please CC your responses to me, I am not subscribed to -questions@) _________________________________________________ free e-mail, message boards, chat, and more... http://www.whatthefuck.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message