Classic running out of memory... huh? what? <long>

[Kevin D. Clark]

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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