From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 16 16:42:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA15848 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:42:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA15842 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:42:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA18457; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:41:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:41:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Mirror Beastie cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap space problems In-Reply-To: <364FE9ED.2F9D0DE9@askas.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Mirror Beastie wrote: > I am getting max swap utilisation on two of my freebsd machines. > both are 486s here are the details (both kernels are standard - > generic with excess removed ) > > freebsd 2.2.6 32mb ram dx4 running x (fvwm2) and several netscape > communicator 4.04 browsers my 50 mb swap slowly fills up after a > couple days - a reboot removes the symptom shutting down netscape > frees up all but a couple of megs. Things are much worse if i run a > couple of mirrors. swap get full quicker That will do it. 82MB of VM isn't really enough for X + several Netscapes. Netscape is a memory hog. Next install give yourself at least 100MB of swap. You can never have too much swap and this comes from experience! Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message