Thanks.

Unfortunately, even when I installed a big disk and made a huge swap
partition, I got the same UVM out of memory messages

/sbin/ping -c <my nameserver's IP address> UVM: pid 13 (sysinst), uid 0 killed:
out of swap

UVM: pid 47 (ping), uid 0 killed: out of swap.

So, it seems the problem is that it's not possible to do a 1.4 install with
boot-tiny.fs onto a 4 MB system?

Thanks again -Mike


On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Charles M. Hannum wrote:

> 
> >> Hmmm... I was under the impression that the general rule of thumb for swap
> >> was 1.5 to 2 times your actual RAM.  For low RAM systems, I wouldn't use
> >> any less than twice your RAM.
> >
> > That rule is a relic from the old vm design of 4.3BSD and before.
> > It's totally irrelevant now.
> 
> To be a bit clearer:
> 
> This has to do with whether the system supports reclaiming swap pages
> that back pages currently in core.  Some systems don't do this, and
> therefore may keep an extra copy of everything in core even when space
> is tight.  UVM supports this reclamation as of 19990326 (uvm_pdaemon.c
> version 1.14, which is in the 1.4 release).