Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 19:02:28 -0500 From: northern snowfall <dbailey27@ameritech.net> To: Alexander <amour@amour.ath.cx> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm running out of swapspace Message-ID: <3E46EC14.9090702@ameritech.net> References: <20030210004609.V41846-100000@amour.ath.cx>
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One way to do it is to create a memory file system linked to a file on-disk.
In FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE, to create a 128MB additional swap space, I've tried:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap0 count=128 bs=1m
chmod 600 /swap0
mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /swap0 -u 3
swapon /dev/md3
This will link the 128 megabyte file into swap space recognized by the
system.
Execute "swapinfo" to confirm:
sandstone.north_ % swapinfo
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
/dev/ad0s1b 524288 10136 514152 2% Interleaved
/dev/md3 131072 1876 129196 1% Interleaved
Total 655360 12012 643348 2%
sandstone.north_ %
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