Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:37:56 -0500 From: Mohsin Rahman <mtech@buffnet.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, rudi@askas.co.za Subject: Re: swap space problems Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19981117103756.0091d470@buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811161640490.17775-100000@resnet.uoregon.ed u> References: <364FE9ED.2F9D0DE9@askas.co.za>
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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
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