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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@portsoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: adding swap space
Date: 29 Apr 1997 19:22:54 GMT
Organization: Portland Software
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Curt Finch <curt@pnk.com> wrote in article <336610A7.41C67EA6@pnk.com>...
> Primarily due to Netscape Navigator's pigginess, I often seem
> to be coming dangerously close to running out of swap space.
> 
> I have extra space in /usr.  Is it possible to turn some portion 
> of this into paging space?
> 

do a "man swapon"

Ted