Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA08520 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Dec 1995 00:21:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA08515 for ; Mon, 25 Dec 1995 00:21:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA27221; Mon, 25 Dec 1995 09:21:03 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA15580; Mon, 25 Dec 1995 09:21:02 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA04883; Mon, 25 Dec 1995 09:17:49 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512250817.JAA04883@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.1-RELEASE install -- login causes "out of swap" To: cshenton@it.hq.nasa.gov (Chris Shenton) Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1995 09:17:49 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512250150.BAA27208@wirehead.hq.nasa.gov> from "Chris Shenton" at Dec 24, 95 08:50:41 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Chris Shenton wrote: > > I just downloaded and installed onto newly mkfs'd disk the 2.1 > RELEASE. Install went as usual -- slow over dialup ppp -- but when I > try to login to my virgin system, the disk grinds for 30-60 seconds, > then I get a console message > > swap_pager: out of space Does it complain during startup that it could not add the swap partition for some reason? How much swap do you have configured, and how much real mem? -- 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. ;-)