From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 24 13:52:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA08927 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 13:52:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA08918 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 13:52:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.7/8.8.8) id QAA02719; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:52:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199711242152.QAA02719@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Running out of memory? In-Reply-To: from Matt Behrens at "Nov 24, 97 10:30:15 am" To: matt@zigg.com (Matt Behrens) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:52:23 -0500 (EST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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