From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 24 10:19:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00609 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:19:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hoth.ffwd.bc.ca ([209.153.243.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA00604 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:18:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from skye@ffwd.bc.ca) Received: from skye by hoth.ffwd.bc.ca with local (Exim 1.82 #3) id 0zB0FJ-00060Y-00; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:17:33 -0700 Message-ID: <19980824101733.35426@ffwd.bc.ca> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:17:33 -0700 From: Skye Poier To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM crash? questions References: <19980820172445.54455@ffwd.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85 In-Reply-To: <19980820172445.54455@ffwd.bc.ca>; from Skye Poier on Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 05:24:45PM -0700 X-URL: http://www.ffwd.bc.ca/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No responses - did I subscribe to the right list to get an answer to this question? would freebsd-users be a better choice? Thanks, Skye Word on the street is that Skye Poier said: > Hello, > > I am running 2.2.6-RELEASE on a 486 with 16mb of memory and a 65mb swap > partition. > > Recently I've been working with some rather large files and the machine > has had a tendancy to lock up solid. No error on the console, in dmesg, > nothing. It seems to happen when VM (via swapinfo) reaches 30% usage or > about 19MB of the 65MB avaiable.... other than this the server has been > totally bulletproof. > > Any clues? I'm getting more memory soon but it probably still won't be > enough, I want to use all my swap space! > > Thanks, > Skye > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message