From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 29 06:37:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA12731 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 06:37:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com (as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA12723 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 06:37:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id IAA00885; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 08:34:55 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199707221805.UAA22575@free.polbox.pl> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 08:34:55 -0500 (CDT) Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. From: Conrad Sabatier To: "Mariusz Potocki" Subject: Re: SWAP SPACE Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Randy A. Katz" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 22-Jul-97 "Mariusz Potocki" wrote: >> I'm getting an out of swap space message in my /var/log/messages >> file from time to time. How do I check how much swap is being used >> and kind of monitor what's using it? Is there a tool? > >I think, that you can use top. I recently added a second swap partition on my system (I was occasionally getting the "out of swap" messages, too). Added in quite easily, really. I just used Partition Magic to free up some space on my DOS drive, created a BSD partition, labeled it and added it to my /etc/fstab (also had to do a MAKEDEV wd0s2b for it, but that's no problem). Works great, and I *seriously* doubt I'll be running out of swap anymore (I added another 124 megs in the new partition). :-) -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/