Date: 18 Sep 1999 15:57:46 -0500 From: Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net> To: James Burton <jamesb@nelsonbay.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extra swap space Message-ID: <853dwc5451.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> In-Reply-To: James Burton's message of "Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:46:20 %2B1000 (EST)" References: <199909180346.NAA28049@bell.nelsonbay.com>
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James Burton <jamesb@nelsonbay.com> writes: > 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. I don't know if vn is part of the 3.1 GENERIC kernel configuration. For 3.3, it is not, so I suspect vn is not part of 3.1 GENERIC. So, you need a custom kernel that includes pseudo-device vn. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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