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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How can I safely increase swap area, Or, do I need to after upgrade? Date: 4 Mar 1996 15:40:49 GMT Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4hf2u1$ejo@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> References: <313b0cb3.43023009@news.enter.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc-sec.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <313b0cb3.43023009@news.enter.net>, Daniel Hauer <dh@enter.net> wrote: > for me) and, just recently, upgraded the MB and memory to a DX4 120 > mhz with 16MB of ram. Do I need to increase swap space correspondingly > > with the memory increase? and how would I do it with out destroying > what I have now? The machine is running well, with the current > configuration........ As always it depends on how many applications you run, if you're under X11 or not, if you run some memory hungry program like INN or named. If you need some swap fast, you could add a swapping file with vnconfig. [[ cc'ed to Daniel ]] -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-