Managing Swap Space

[The Doctor]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 07:34:07AM -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 7:13 AM, The Doctor <doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca>
> wrote:
> 
> > REcently I have been getting swap space full messages.
> >
> > How can Swap space be managaed on FreeBSD? ...
> >
> 
> You can add it at any time. It's better if you have a raw partition to swap
> on, of course.
> 
> presumably, your /etc/fstab has an entry akin to this
> 
> /dev/ada0p3             none                    swap    sw              0 0
> 
> You can add another if you have another partition ready. You can swap to a
> file, too. Not recommended, but helpful in an emergency. You might try to
> figure out what is consuming your existing swap.
> > man 8 swapon
>

Could help.  Ideally i want to get rid of

swap_pager-getswapspace messages from /var/log/messages .

Also , /etc/fstab read


# Device	Mountpoint	FStype	Options	Dump	Pass#
/dev/mfid0p2	/		ufs	rw	1	1
/dev/mfid0p3	none		swap	sw	0	0
proc		/proc		procfs	rw	0	0
fdesc   	/dev/fd         fdescfs rw      0       0

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