Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 01:32:56 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander <amour@amour.ath.cx> To: northern snowfall <dbailey27@ameritech.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm running out of swapspace Message-ID: <20030210013243.K43240-100000@amour.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <3E46EC14.9090702@ameritech.net>
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Thank You ! On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, northern snowfall wrote: > One way to do it is to create a memory file system linked to a file on-disk. > In FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE, to create a 128MB additional swap space, I've tried: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap0 count=128 bs=1m > chmod 600 /swap0 > mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /swap0 -u 3 > swapon /dev/md3 > This will link the 128 megabyte file into swap space recognized by the > system. > Execute "swapinfo" to confirm: > sandstone.north_ % swapinfo > Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type > /dev/ad0s1b 524288 10136 514152 2% Interleaved > /dev/md3 131072 1876 129196 1% Interleaved > Total 655360 12012 643348 2% > sandstone.north_ % > Don > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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