From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 17 07:39:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA25895 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 07:39:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA25888 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 07:39:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mtech@buffnet.net) Received: from mohsin (mohsin.buffnet.net [205.246.19.98]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA06809; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:38:01 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19981117103756.0091d470@buffnet.net> X-Sender: mtech@buffnet.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:37:56 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mohsin Rahman Subject: Re: swap space problems Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, rudi@askas.co.za In-Reply-To: References: <364FE9ED.2F9D0DE9@askas.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 04:41 PM 11/16/98 -0800, Doug White wrote: >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! > Exactly how much swap can FreeBSD handle? I had 256M in my mailserver and it kept ruuing out of swap space. I added an additional 1GB of swap and ran into continuous problems like reebots and scsi hangs. I eventually ended up taking the 1GB swap out, and thins are back to normal. Any idea? >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message