From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 23 14:56:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.computeralt.com (server.computeralt.com [207.41.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E999D14D29 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:56:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@computeralt.com) Received: from scott (scott.computeralt.com [207.41.29.100]) by server.computeralt.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA02364; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 17:55:14 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.32.19990323175122.0370cf00@mail.computeralt.com> X-Sender: scott@mail.computeralt.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.32 (Beta) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 17:55:12 -0500 To: Greg Black From: "Scott I. Remick" Subject: Re: Out of Swap Space hangs system Cc: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <19990323211859.16523.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 04:18 PM 3/23/1999 , you wrote: >It's not a serious problem -- a properly setup Unix >system will never crash from lack of swap. Well, ok... so what are the proper setup steps to ensure a system will not crash when the swap fills? My system in question has a 50MB swap partition and 16MB of physical RAM. I've tried to take further steps to prevent my swap from filling in the first place, but should it still happen sometime, I want to be prepared. ----------------------- Scott I. Remick scott@computeralt.com Network and Information (802)388-7545 ext. 236 Systems Manager FAX:(802)388-3697 Computer Alternatives, Inc. http://www.computeralt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message