Classic running out of memory... huh? what? <long>
Kevin D. Clark
kevin_d_clark at comcast.net
Thu Jun 11 15:30:42 EDT 2009
Michael ODonnell writes:
> I wrote:
> >If no joy just delete that swapFile,
>
> Yikes! I hope it was obvious but I forgot to say that you should:
>
> swapoff /someNFSdirectory/mySwapFile
>
> ...before deleting it.
Indeed. In fact, in the past I verified that when I setup a swapfile
in this manner, and then went looking for references to it via lsof, I
didn't see any. So, this implies that "swapoff" is pretty important
in this scenerio.
--kevin (who just setup a 80GB swapfile in this
manner to solve some emergency a few weeks ago)
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