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Extending swap space on FreeBSD 5.4

When I first created bonzo, I allocated 96MB of RAM in VMWare. As I ran Gallery 2, Drupal, ByteHoard, etc, it became clear from the out-of-memory errors that I needed to boost the memory space. I since increased the allocation to 256MB, but the swap file is still only 160MB. Consequently, I’m plagued by kernel out of space space errors like:

Dec  5 18:09:18 bonzo kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(6): failed

and

Dec  6 03:03:07 bonzo kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
Dec  6 03:03:07 bonzo kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(4): failed
Dec  6 03:03:07 bonzo kernel: pid 15958 (httpd), uid 80, was killed: out of swap space
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