Hi,

I am able to set up swap space using a swap file, but I cannot set up swap
space using the /dev/wd0b device.  (I just tried the swap file thing after
reading your post).

This seems really weird.  Any particular reason why this might be?

Thanks,
- Greg

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Greg Hughes wrote:

> I'm running the Apr 26, 2001 snapshot (1.5.1 beta 1).
> 
> I have read the swapctl man page severally, but cannot find what I am
> doing incorrectly.
> 
> Both the GENERIC and install kernels return the same error message.  My
> own hand-configured/compiled kernel returns the same error message as
> well.
> 
> Could there be some kernel options that are required to enable swap space?
> 
> - Greg
> 
> On Thu, 17 May 2001, Jun Ebihara wrote:
> 
> > From: Greg Hughes <greg@particle.dyndns.org>
> > Subject: Swap space on z50?
> > Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 20:39:21 -0400 (EDT)
> > 
> > > error message: 'swapon: /dev/wd0b: Cannot allocate memory'.
> > > Could anyone provide some insight into what needs to be done to configure
> > > swap space on the z50?
> > 
> > On NetBSD 1.5,I still build pkgsrc-current day-by-day.
> > 
> > % df -k
> > Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > /dev/sd0a      117463    35055    76534    31%    /
> > /dev/sd0e    28196040 13203118 13583120    49%    /usr
> > kernfs              1        1        0   100%    /kern
> > % swapctl -k -l
> > Device         1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Priority
> > /dev/sd0b         101688     2296    99392     2%    0
> > /usr/swapfile     102400     2120   100280     2%    0
> > /usr/swapfile2    500000     2124   497876     0%    0
> > Total             704088     6540   697548     1%
> > 
> > I set up my swap space with seeing "man swapctl" and works fine.
> > --
> > jun ebihara
> > 
> 
>