From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 01:18:43 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA25480 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 01:18:43 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA25470 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 01:18:36 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA15737; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 18:00:03 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507140830.SAA15737@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Increase swap? To: rsnow@legend.txdirect.net (Rob Snow) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 18:00:02 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Rob Snow" at Jul 14, 95 02:56:47 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 829 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Rob Snow stands accused of saying: > I've looked through the archives of mail and news, FAQ's and can't > find anything that ANSWERS the question: (Losts of questions) > > can I increase swap via swapfiles? Yup. You want to search for 'vnconfig'. > ie. swapon /dev/wd0s4e/tmp/swapfile.swap Something along the lines of : dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swapfile vnconfig -c /dev/vn0 /tmp/swapfile (check my syntax here) swapon /dev/vn0 > Rob Snow -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[