From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7d3530220609171403v562772fdt71823b0ede930e19@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:03:35 -0400 From: "John Floren" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] install "out of physical memory" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7d3530220609171340m1b6b156erd138325867d4b2b7@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: b92a64a6-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 9/17/06, geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > It's not automatic; you need to add something like > > swap /dev/sdC0/swap > > to cpurc or cpurc.local. Others feel that there are serious bugs in > the swapping (paging) code but I've had good luck with it. > > If you expect to swap regularly, you should keep any local file > systems on different disks from your swap space, or performance will > suffer badly when you swap. It's also possible to swap to a file > server (e.g., `swap /n/other/swap') but you'll want to use switched > Ethernet if you do that. If it's possible, it's almost certainly a > better idea to add more RAM to your machine. > I already have a good deal of RAM (320 MB or so) in my machine, but if I put much load on it I'm a bit concerned about running out. Thought I'd ask. John -- "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" -- Shakespeare, Henry VI