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Date:      Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:52:23 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        matt@zigg.com (Matt Behrens)
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Running out of memory?
Message-ID:  <199711242152.QAA02719@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971124102741.8838A-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com> from Matt Behrens at "Nov 24, 97 10:30:15 am"

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Matt Behrens said:
> Problems with VM are now rearing their ugly head in make world.  I
> presently have 32M real, 32M swap, and make world bombed recently: 
> 
> I shouldn't need all of 64M for this, should I?
> 
You don't have 64M of virtual space, you have only 32M.  The available
committed virtual space is the swap size, and doesn't include memory.
The system can run in a lame mode, without swap space, but that is not
how it is normally used.

-- 
John
dyson@freebsd.org
jdyson@nc.com



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