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Date:      Tue, 11 Nov 1997 07:42:02 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Chris Parry <laotzu@juniper.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Swap space utilization 
Message-ID:  <199711111542.HAA24963@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Nov 1997 07:10:23 PST." <Pine.NEB.3.96.971111070905.10545P-100000@leaf.juniper.net> 

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>I have one process with very high memory utilization (64m+), and four
> relatively small swap partitions (64m each).  Is my process stuck using
> only one of the four partitions or does it get striped across all 4?

   It is striped across all partitions. Use "pstat -s" to check swap space
usage.

>innd dies with "Out of Space", but it should have pleanty of swap
>(256M)...

   This is likely a resource limit (rlimit) on the maximum data size for
the process and not an out of swap space condition.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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