From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 4 20:05:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0820106566B for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 20:05:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout019.mac.com (asmtpout019.mac.com [17.148.16.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A77BE8FC18 for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 20:05:56 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp019.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-20.01 64bit (built Nov 21 2010)) with ESMTPSA id <0LJ500ALJ95GTX80@asmtp019.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:05:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.2.15,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2011-04-04_05:2011-04-04, 2011-04-04, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1104040107 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <4D9A232C.4000309@stcable.net> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:05:40 -0700 Message-id: <8B8D0407-CFB4-4F76-A7D4-D082C93FA2C7@mac.com> References: <4D9A1464.7060605@stcable.net> <585773A3-0638-4210-94D2-57A3018900AA@mac.com> <4D9A232C.4000309@stcable.net> To: Paul Chany X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap_pager: out of swap space, swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:05:56 -0000 On Apr 4, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Paul Chany wrote: > I follow the link: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html > > I did create a swapfile, and run again command: '# make install clean'. > Since thet it being running on my old Toshiba laptop that had 64 MB RAM and 16 MB swap space but with swapfile it has much more VM. > > Thanks! You're most welcome. With only 64MB of RAM, you probably want at least 256MB of swapspace handy, but that depends on what you are running, of course... Regards, -- -Chuck