From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 21:37:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA01426 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:37:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (slcmodem1-p2-3.intele.net [204.118.149.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA01421 Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:37:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA00218; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 22:37:10 -0700 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 22:37:10 -0700 Message-Id: <199603130537.WAA00218@obie.softweyr.com> From: wes@intele.net To: "Gary Palmer" CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reconfig info In-Reply-To: <114656114@toto.iv> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk R J Huntington asked: % We have FreeBSD installed on our server and need to increase swap % space. The question is: Do we have to reinstall the OS from scratch? Michael Smith replied: # No. See the 'vnconfig' manpage and the handbook for instructions on # creating a swapfile. Gary Palmer informed uss: > There is a performance penalty for doing this tho. If performance is > critical on your server, creating or enlarging a ``proper'' raw swap > parition would be preferable. Another simple alternative is to add a disk drive, and make another swap partition on the new disk drive. If you use a high-performance SCSI system (can you say 'detach'?) this is a big performance win as well. Go check out some cheap disk drives at http://www.onsale.com/. -- Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffett