From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 26 11:53:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0468937B400 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 11:53:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 46554 invoked by uid 100); 26 Jan 2002 19:53:55 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15443.2386.304645.778882@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:53:54 -0600 To: "alexus" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: out of swap space In-Reply-To: <8372594@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.44 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.4-STABLE-i386) 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 alexus types: > hi > > is there a way to increase size of swap space? > > i have 512mb of ram and 512mb of swap space > > i had 256mb of ram before so i created 512mb of swap space > now i put another 256mb in and i'm still running out of space You should have been running out of swap before adding the ram. > so i was asking if there is a way to increase size of swap space? > > this is live server and i can't afford for it to be down, so place no > suggestions like partion magic.. this is so windowish:) > unless thats the only one solution then i might consider.. > > and yes i'm going to put more physical memory, but i still would like to > know if there is a way to increase swap size > > thank you in advance See the vnconfig man page for details on doing this. Since vn is available as a loadable module, you should be able to do this without even needing to reboot (though securelevel may prevent that). http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message