[linux-help] Re: How to get more virtual memory?

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First, check to see how much is available by running the 'free' command at
the command line.  It will show something like:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        128176     117128      11048      44960      48156      27080
-/+ buffers/cache:      41892      86284
Swap:       130748          0     130748

If your swap is full, you can add more simply by creating another swap
partition, then running mkswap to "format" it as swap space, then "mount" it
with "swapon /dev/????" or tell it to "mount" on every boot by adding it to
/etc/fstab.


On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 09:28:27AM -0500, Bates, Rod wrote:
> I am running a program on a large input file that
> runs out of virtual memory.   malloc is returning
> zero after having allocated ~248 meg.  I believe I
> have more swap space than this.  How do I increase
> the limit?   
> 
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