Subject: Re: maelstrom back on line with 1 gig memory
From: Craig Chambers (chambers@cs.washington.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 20 2000 - 17:25:41 PDT
I've added 600MB swap to maelstrom, giving 2GB swap space for 1GB ram.
(Use mkfile to create a file of 600mb, in /var/tmp, then do swap -a to add the
new swap file, and edit /etc/vfstab to add the new swap file line so swap -a
happens automatically on future reboots. Do "apropos swap" to find out a bunch
of relevant man pages. "man swap" also goes directly to the key web page.)
-- Craig
patric@cs.washington.edu wrote:
>
> Markus Mock wrote:
>
> > More swap would just give the system the resources to swap out other
> > applications resident at the same time (editors, shells) so that Calpa (or
> > other memory hogs) can take full use of the 1GB RAM. 1GB swap might be
> > enough, but I remember from configuring a Linux box that it is generally
> > advised to set swap size to 2-4 times of RAM size.
>
> You guys decide if you want more swap and let me know. If you know an
> easy way to add swap, let me know that too ;-)
>
> Thanks,
> Patric
>
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