swap

[Jonathan Linowes]

got it, thanks
my system was thrashing really badly

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Jenkins" <dan at rastech.com>
To: <discuss at gnhlug.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: swap


> Jonathan Linowes wrote:
>
>>Does the swap area have to be a partition or can it be a file? if it can, 
>>are there any disadvantage to doing this?
>>I'm on RH9 and recently added a faster hard drive that's got plenty of 
>>space.
>>
> It can be a file. I'm not away of any disadvantages, though, if they are 
> any, I hope to be enlightened by others.
> I've shared the Windows swap file with Linux without a problem. As you 
> have the space, there is no reason to
> do this of course.
>
> Just use a file name in /etc/fstab for your swap (like this):
> /var/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> Create the swap file with a command like this:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swapfile bs=1024 count=65536
> where count is number of KB (64 MB in this case)
>
> Make it a swap file:
> mkswap /var/swapfile
>
> Make it active swap space by this:
> swapon /var/swapfile
> This should be done automatically during startup by the /etc/fstab entry.
>
> That's it.
>
> -- 
> Dan Jenkins (dan at rastech.com)
> Rastech Inc., Bedford, NH, USA --- 1-603-206-9951
> *** Technical Support for over a Quarter Century
>
> _______________________________________________
> gnhlug-discuss mailing list
> gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
>