Re: Is there a way to make the pi use swap?

2018-09-17 Thread Philip Hands
Gene Heskett writes: > On Monday 17 September 2018 03:18:09 Philip Hands wrote: > >> Gene Heskett writes: >> > On Saturday 15 September 2018 16:16:24 Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 8:16 PM, Alan Corey >> > >> > wrote: >> >> > My /etc/fstab just has >> >> > /var/swap2 none

Re: Is there a way to make the pi use swap?

2018-09-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 September 2018 03:18:09 Philip Hands wrote: > Gene Heskett writes: > > On Saturday 15 September 2018 16:16:24 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 8:16 PM, Alan Corey > > > > wrote: > >> > My /etc/fstab just has > >> > /var/swap2 none swap sw 0 0 > >> > That's for a s

Re: Is there a way to make the pi use swap?

2018-09-17 Thread Alan Corey
Even this Android phone has it set to 100 by default. Funny, in the BSDs I think it's more like swap strategy. apropos helps sometimes but can't help if your man pages are incomplete. At least you quickly find out if you misspelled apropos. Then Google (or ducky). Googling error messages is also

Re: Is there a way to make the pi use swap?

2018-09-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2018-09-17 at 09:18 +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > Gene Heskett writes: > > And pray tell, where does one set that swappiness? > > Sounds like something that could be handy. > > When wondering that sort of thing, I generally try this sort of command > to find out: Or one could try, for exa

Re: Is there a way to make the pi use swap?

2018-09-17 Thread Philip Hands
Gene Heskett writes: > On Saturday 15 September 2018 16:16:24 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 8:16 PM, Alan Corey > wrote: >> > My /etc/fstab just has >> > /var/swap2 none swap sw 0 0 >> > That's for a swap file which was made by dding 0s into it, then >> > running mkswap. >