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From: apple!serendip!pat@decwrl.dec.com (Pat Lashley)
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Subject: Re: "Not enough memory" on Sun 386i/250 under SunOS 4.0.1
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Date: 15 Mar 89 22:08:27 GMT
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In article <8902231707.AA12812@columbia.edu> shenkin@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin) writes:
>	3.  Doubled the size of the swap-space, from 16.3 to 32.6 Mbytes,
>	    and made sure this took place using format> partition> print.
>	    (See FLAME below on repartitioning operation... grrr!)

Um, you really didn't have to do this.  I tend to run -LOTS- of windows.
Some of them have big applications in them (i.e. GNU emacs with ispell,
compile, etc.).  When I realized that I was short on swap space, here is
what I did (as root) (my system name is `serendip'):

	cd /files/swap
	mkfile 16m serendip
	swapon /files/swap/serendip

The final line may be placed in your rc.local so that you don't have to do
it again.  Make sure that you don't use the `-n' flag to mkfile.

If client swap files can be normal NFS mounted files, why can't you use
one locally (at least as an expansion device).

-Pat

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