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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 09:15:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Mohsin Rahman <mtech@buffnet.net>
cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, rudi@askas.co.za
Subject: Re: swap space problems
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On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Mohsin Rahman wrote:

> >> 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?

That sounds more like a disk problem than a swap system problem.  If
swap_pager runs into disk problems it'll keel over and die, so make sure
those swap partitions are squeaky clean.

Doug White                               
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