RE: [aclug-L] Virtual Memory Exhausted

["John Alexander" <john.alexander@xxxxxxx>]

Bumping virtual memory up by another 64MB took care of the issue. Thanks for
the help guys.

JA

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> From: owner-aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Bob Deep
> Sent: Thursday, December 24, 1998 9:02 AM
> To: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [aclug-L] Virtual Memory Exhausted
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>
> John Alexander wrote:
> >
> > Uhh... OK, how do I add swap files, since I don't have any
> slack space on
> > this drive from which I can build another swap partition?
> >
>
> Create a swap file, and swap on that.
>
> See the man page for mkswap for a procedure that makes a swapable file,
> formats it for swap and swaps on it.
>
>               # dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=8192
>               # mkswap swapfile 8192
>               # sync
>               # swapon swapfile
>
> Is the section of interast.... It adds about 8 meg of swap...
>
> -= bob =-
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