rdkuphal@ihlpe.UUCP (07/09/87)
I have a unixpc (7300 3b1) with 2mb of memory 40mb harddisk and running 3.5 that constantly runs out of swap space and trashes the filesystems (ie, files in the filesystems), slowly but surely it trashes enough files that it can no longer support it's self, and dies. I am sure it is running out of swap space, becuase I have managed to get some messages about the OS killing processes in trying to salvage swap space as it is dieing. Question, is there any way to increase the swap space on the machine to a usable amount. I am familier with a 3B2 and know how to do it on that machine, (They have a nice start up procedure if you want do it). There appears to be no script to do it, and it does not give you the option when loading the OS. This problem has happend at LEAST 7 times in the last three weeks, I cant use the machine (with confidence) if this is not fixed. bob kuphal ihnp4!ihlpe!rdkuphal
davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (07/10/87)
In article <1855@ihlpe.ATT.COM> rdkuphal@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Kuphal) writes:
:I have a unixpc (7300 3b1) with 2mb of memory 40mb harddisk and running
:3.5 that constantly runs out of swap space and trashes the filesystems
[ ... ]
:Question, is there any way to increase the swap space on the machine
:to a usable amount. I am familier with a 3B2 and know how to do it
When I added my first big hard disk everything went fine. We I added the
second, I had no control over the swap space. After checking, I found
that the disk format in the 2.x version had a request for swap space
size, and the 3.0 doesn't seem to. Perhaps it would "confuse the user".
I have no idea what's in the 3.5 version, I'm trying to decide if I
should upgrade or buy hardware.
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