From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Feb 11 22:36:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA13917 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 22:36:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rainier.cs.wustl.edu (root@cs.wustl.edu [128.252.165.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA13907 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 22:36:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nanbor@lambada.cs.wustl.edu) Received: from lambada.cs.wustl.edu (nanbor@lambada.cs.wustl.edu [128.252.165.142]) by rainier.cs.wustl.edu (8.8.5/CTS-JEK1.2) with ESMTP id AAA28302 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 00:36:09 -0600 (CST) Received: (from nanbor@localhost) by lambada.cs.wustl.edu (8.8.5/CTS-JEK1.2) id AAA15242; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 00:36:04 -0600 (CST) To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Netscape strangeness From: Nanbor Wang Date: 12 Feb 1998 00:36:04 -0600 Message-ID: Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I recently installed FreeBSD on a Micron dual-Ppro box. It runs great most of the time. Sometimes, if the system load is too big, it hangs dead. Oh well, it only happened once -- when I did a make -j 10. However, which really annoys me is that, it never seems to use the swap space. I've allocated 250 MB of swap space on this machine but I still get "not enough memory" from netscape all the time. Using either top or xsysinfo show that the swap is still hanging freely when this occurs. I've seen the swap space got used once when I was compiling a huge program. What could be the problem? Am I missing something very obvious? Please let me know if more info is needed (mptable or dmesg perhaps?) Thanks, Nanbor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message