From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Oct 19 14:43:51 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6C79E3D660 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:43:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca) Received: from doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (doctor.nl2k.ab.ca [204.209.81.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9F4846C77A for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:43:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca) Received: from doctor by doctor.nl2k.ab.ca with local (Exim 4.89 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1e5C2C-0005mJ-OJ; Thu, 19 Oct 2017 08:42:56 -0600 Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 08:42:56 -0600 From: The Doctor To: Michael Sierchio Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Managing Swap Space Message-ID: <20171019144256.GA15251@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> References: <20171019141310.GA12189@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:43:51 -0000 On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 07:34:07AM -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 7:13 AM, The Doctor > wrote: > > > REcently I have been getting swap space full messages. > > > > How can Swap space be managaed on FreeBSD? ... > > > > You can add it at any time. It's better if you have a raw partition to swap > on, of course. > > presumably, your /etc/fstab has an entry akin to this > > /dev/ada0p3 none swap sw 0 0 > > You can add another if you have another partition ready. You can swap to a > file, too. Not recommended, but helpful in an emergency. You might try to > figure out what is consuming your existing swap. > > man 8 swapon > Could help. Ideally i want to get rid of swap_pager-getswapspace messages from /var/log/messages . Also , /etc/fstab read # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/mfid0p2 / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/mfid0p3 none swap sw 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 fdesc /dev/fd fdescfs rw 0 0 > > -- > "Well," Brahma said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is no > wiser, but an intelligent person requires only two thousand five hundred." > > - The Mah??bh??rata > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor@@nl2k.ab.ca Ici doctor@@nl2k.ab.ca Yahweh, Queen & country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist rising! https://www.empire.kred/ROOTNK?t=94a1f39b Look at Psalms 14 and 53 on Atheism Talk Sense to a fool and he calls you foolish - Euripides