Re: Static Swap
Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:27:24 -0400
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 01:57:43AM +0530, pramod@anaconda.ee.iitm.ernet.in wrote:
> Hi everyone ,
> I wanted to know wether linux can instead of having a static
> size swap have a dynamic size swap . That is if there is disk space
> available that is there is no valid data , that could be used for swap .
> Static swap also has a problem that when I increase my ram the swap also
> has to be increased for faster performance but cant be done because the
> partitions are all made . I want to know wether any attempts are being
> made along this front . I am an enthusiastic programmer and would like to
> contribute for the above . Please mail me as I am not a member of this
> group .
>
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap bs=1k count=131072
# swapon /var/swap
gives you 128M more swap.
-- arvind
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