From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 6:38:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B76AC37B406 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:38:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter.mills-atl.com (dsl-64-192-140-77.telocity.com [64.192.140.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0399D43E3B for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:38:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmmills@telocity.com) Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.mills-atl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02434; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:40:40 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: otter.mills-atl.com: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:40:39 -0500 (EST) From: John Mills X-Sender: jmills@otter.mills-atl.com Reply-To: John Mills To: FreeBSD-questions Cc: DaleCo Help Desk Subject: Re: Checking RAM and swap use In-Reply-To: <016901c27f53$323e1de0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello - On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, DaleCo Help Desk wrote: > > Now - I see I need to increase my swap partition. Do I have to wipe > my > > installation and start again? > #man swapon > SWAPON(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual > SWAPON(8) > > NAME > swapon - specify additional device for paging and swapping OK - now, can is there a way to set up a fixed-size file a swap space? Thanks for any more pointers. - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message