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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk!lessen From: lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Swap problems on NetBSD Date: 18 May 1993 08:10:46 GMT Organization: BT Laboratories Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1ta5m6$ip5@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> References: <1t99do$2rk@zip.eecs.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: jammy.axion.bt.co.uk In article <1t99do$2rk@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, khushro@niagara.eecs.umich.edu (Khushro Shahookar) writes: |> The following shows that I have a b partition of 75Mb, but only 5 Mb is |> recognized and used by the kernel. I really do run out of swapspace |> frequently, or so the kernel says. |> What is the cause of this, and what can I do to fix it? |> I am using the NEW NetBSD kernel, as distributed. |> The local help has given up on this, so any help from the net will be |> appreciated. |> |> danube# vmstat |> procs memory page disks faults cpu |> r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr ?0 ?1 ?2 ?3 in sy cs us sy id |> 0 0 0 4824 212 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 122 47 31 5 4 91 The vmstat command does not show you the amount of swap available. Try 'swapinfo -k', this will show you (in k) the amount of swap configured on which partitions and how much of it is used. NetBSD *will* use all the space available in the swap partition (b), so in your case it *will* use 75Meg (I wish I could afford to be that extravagent). I'm not sure what the avm figure is in a vmstat? Perhaps someone could explain (I don't have the manual page handy!) Lee.