cmaz514@ut-emx.uucp (Raghu Ramachandran) (03/31/91)
Last night I was in root removing files from the 105M hard disk to free up some space. I accidentaly double clicked on the icon for /private/vm/swapdisk. This started up 'Edit', which then tried to open the swapfile. Needless to say both the computer and I had a fit! I forced the workspace to the front and loged out. By the time the log out was complete several minutes had elapsed. When I logged back in, the swapfile had exploded, and I only have 8.77MB free on the hard disk. The swap file has a size reading of 27467776 (~26MB). Any help in reducing the size of the swapfile would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Raghu
lclarke@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Lawrence Clarke) (04/01/91)
cmaz514@ut-emx.uucp (Raghu Ramachandran) writes: > Last night I was in root removing files from the 105M hard disk to free up so > space. I accidentaly double clicked on the icon for /private/vm/swapdisk. > > This started up 'Edit', which then tried to open the swapfile. > > Needless to say both the computer and I had a fit! > > I forced the workspace to the front and loged out. By the time the log out w > complete several minutes had elapsed. When I logged back in, the swapfile ha > exploded, and I only have 8.77MB free on the hard disk. The swap file has a > size reading of 27467776 (~26MB). > Just delete /private/vm/swapfile while in single user mode > B SD -S then reboot the NeXT and the RC file will automatically create a new swapfile. It will grow accordingly... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * lawrence_clarke@questor.uucp | c/o TRIUMF Operations Group * * larry@erich.triumf.ca | University of British Columbia * * Compuserve: 70441,1776 | 4004 Wesbrook Mall * * Phone: +1 604 275-5902 | Vancouver, British Columbia * * FAX: +1 604 275-4184 | Canada V6T 2A3 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) (05/05/91)
AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH my 040 cube does not complete booting!
I was trying those changes suggested by people so to display hostname
in the login window. I tried the one that add -HostName hostname" to
the /etc/ttys file. I thought it can be re-read simply by killing
the process by kill -HUP 1 (from memory, perhpas I have this wrong)
suddenly, the whole thing froze, and there was no way I could do much
on that. I went into monitor and tried reboot.
Everything went fine untill when it was starting standard deamons.
these are what I got on the screen (verbose mode)
starting standard daemons: update cron.
Sat May 4 22:34:00 CDT 1991
May 4 22 :34:48 localhost syslog:loginwindow: could not find WindowServer Port!
and the same error message got repeated several times.
I also tried to powerdown and up (obvious, didn't help)
Now that my mind is blank, and I am open to ANY suggestion you have
Thanks guys!
(mmm... I don't know how can I survive without you guys!:)
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cyliao@bagend.eng.umd.edu o Q. Who am I?
NeXTmail o.k. o A. A NeXTed person with 320meg HD and OD
I have MailService o An Apple // guy
and a 2400 modem w/o MNP o An airplane pilot (I hope)