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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Swapping problems ? Date: 1 Feb 1997 00:49:29 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 32 Message-ID: <5cu3up$6fc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5cmfgn$5ql@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34892 igor@students.uiuc.edu (igor vladimirovich roshchin) wrote: > Swap: 225M Total, 64K Used, 225M Free > #swapinfo > Device 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type > /dev/wd0s1b 450560 0 450432 0% Interleaved > This computer hangs or reboots if I start compiling something big > (say, the kernel, or "make world") That's sad, but that's more likely a hardware problem. > I think, the problem is in swap management. I think, you are wrong. > Notice the discrepency between different diagnostics.. There's not much of discrepancy, your swap space is simply idle (yet). The first 64 KB of the swap area are never used (to avoid clobbering a disklabel that might happen to be there). Apparently, top displays them as being in use, while swapinfo (or systat) even denies they are available for swapping at all. But that's indeed the only difference between both. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)