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To: Chris Parry <laotzu@juniper.net>
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Subject: Re: Swap space utilization 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 07:42:02 -0800
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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