Re: I'm running out of swapspace

2003-02-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 07:02:28PM -0500, northern snowfall wrote: > 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 >

Re: I'm running out of swapspace

2003-02-09 Thread Alexander
Thank You ! On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, northern snowfall wrote: > 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 > mdcon

Re: I'm running out of swapspace

2003-02-09 Thread Jens Rehsack
Alexander wrote: Hello Recently I'm running out of swapspace. Is there something that I can do to increase my swapspace ? The best will be to take some space from partition like the one for /var and add it to the swap. Is this possible ? I want to ask before trying it, the machine is impo

Re: I'm running out of swapspace

2003-02-09 Thread Clement Laforet
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:48:50 +0100 (CET) Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > Recently I'm running out of swapspace. > Is there something that I can do to increase my swapspace ? > The best will be to take some space from partition > like the one for /var

Re: I'm running out of swapspace

2003-02-09 Thread northern snowfall
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

I'm running out of swapspace

2003-02-09 Thread Alexander
Hello Recently I'm running out of swapspace. Is there something that I can do to increase my swapspace ? The best will be to take some space from partition like the one for /var and add it to the swap. Is this possible ? I want to ask before trying it, the machine is important. thanks