[Gllug] Swap Restrictions

[Grzegorz Jaskiewicz]

[root at sparkie home]# dd bs=1024k count=4096 if=/dev/zero of=swap1
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out

[root at sparkie home]# ls -lah
total 4.1G
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root  152 Apr 12 10:49 .
drwxr-xr-x  24 root root  560 Mar 28 09:24 ..
drwxr-x--x   4 root adm    96 Nov  5 19:05 services
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 4.0G Apr 12 10:53 swap1
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root   96 Nov  5 19:05 users


[root at sparkie home]# mkswap --help
Usage: mkswap [-c] [-v0|-v1] [-pPAGESZ] [-L label] /dev/name [blocks]

[root at sparkie home]# mkswap -v1 swap1
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 4294959 kB
no label, UUID=f303e669-2753-42a0-b89d-304ee1814b5a

[root at sparkie home]# swapon /home/swap1

[root at sparkie home]# grep -i swap /proc/meminfo
SwapCached:      17528 kB
SwapTotal:     4444224 kB
SwapFree:      4392216 kB

[root at sparkie home]# uname -a
Linux sparkie 2.6.11-rc3-bk9 #1 Sat Feb 12 17:40:26 CET 2005 sparc64  
TI_UltraSparc_IIi_(Sabre) unknown PLD Linux


works here :)


-- 
GJ

"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called Research, would  
it?" - AE



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