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Date:      Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:46:20 +1000 (EST)
From:      James Burton <jamesb@nelsonbay.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Extra swap space
Message-ID:  <199909180346.NAA28049@bell.nelsonbay.com>

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Hi,
Because I am running out of swap space sending many emails at once,
I would like to increase it from the existing 32MB ( with 32MB real ).

Following the 4 steps in the handbook to allocate a file for some 
swap space, yields the error message from the vnconfig :-

vnconfig: open: Device not configured

Step 1: cd /dev; sh ./MAKEDEV vn0
Step 2: dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap bs=1024k count=128
Step 3: chmod 0600 /usr/swap
Step 4: swapfile="/usr/swap" added to /etc/rc.conf
        and
        vnconfig -ce /dev/vn0c /usr/swap swap

Runing 3.1 generic which the handbook suggests would have pseudo_device vn 1,
but dont know how to check that either.

Any ideas appreciated,
thanks
james.



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