Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 18:07 -0400, Chris Roddy wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > If you are using a 2.6 kernel, then you can also use a swap *file*. > > > "man mkswap" tells you how to set it up. > > > > > > Oh! I'd forgotten about that. But I didn't know that was new with 2.6. I > > could swear I've used a swap file on 2.4. Maybe I'm imagining it, though. > > It's "always" been there, but before 2.6, there was a speed penalty > for using swap files, which was supposed to be eliminated in 2.6. >
I'm using 2.4; $ uname -a Linux localhost 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux I just went through a messy way of setting up a swapfile - but I certainly learned ;-) -- What can I say, but I'm new. Read all about it here; http://tinyurl.com/m39wa link to c.o.l.misc (jump to the "SOLVED" altered title for quick answer) Basically to setup a swapFILE - I did this; # First - to create the actual file - say of 128MB; # Note; I used 1024 as a (1K) block size, but you can choose much # larger, such as 32KB perhaps, if you like. Count=KBYTES # just do the math and adjust the count= to compensate. ~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=swap bs=1024 count=131072 # Where I chose to place the file. Options explained in 'man mkswap' ~$ mkswap -c -v1 /var/tmp/swap # Now, turn the swapfile on (notify the kernel); ~$ swapon /var/tmp/swap # Finish up by editing (create and entry in) /etc/fstab # so it is kept, found and used upon bootup (I used 'nano' # as the editor). # pri= is unnecessary and only used if multiple swaps are present.. # otherwise 'defaults'(?) might be correct/ok there, under options ~$ nano /etc/fstab # I added this line /var/tmp/swap swap swap pri=32500 0 0 Can check for usuage; ~$ cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /var/tmp/swap file 131064 0 32500 Also use 'free' $ free total used free shared buffers [snipped].... Swap: 131064 0 131064 I *think* I outlined all the steps correctly ,but since I'm very new - please take that into consideration. Note also - there are some mitigating reasons why I didn't just create a swap *partition* (no more partitions are available on this HDD - just for now)-- though creating a swap partition is even easier and is discussed in detail in my thread I linked to in c.o.l.misc Regards __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
