From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:01:25 -0400 From: geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] install "out of physical memory" In-Reply-To: <7d3530220609171340m1b6b156erd138325867d4b2b7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: b9207036-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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.