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From: pleung@cs.buffalo.edu (Patrick Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Out of Processes
Date: 27 Aug 1996 02:56:52 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote:
: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote in article <31D4048A.23C4@www.play-hookey.com> :
: >
: >Florida Boy wrote:
: >>
: >> FreeBSD 2.1.release
: >> 16 MB of physical RAM
: >> 128 MB of swamp
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Are you sure you want 128 MB of swamp? not SWAP? ;-))
That can cause a few problems.
If you meant 128 MB of swap, make sure that you turned on your swap space.
Just because you created a swap partition, doesn't mean that BSD will
automagically mount and turn it on for you.
You should include an entry in your /etc/fstab to automatically
mount your swap partition at boot time, and a line in your rc* script
to turn on the swap space {I didn't have to edit my rc* script,
since the installation program did it for me. }
hope this helps,
Patrick
P.s.
BTW, I was able to happily run 50 to 60 processes with 16mb of physical
ram, and 16mb of swap, a total of 32mb of virtual memory.