I would just add another swap partition. To give you an idea some of my bigweb servers have 4 2gig swap partitions. And that is with 2 â 4 gigs of ram. What does the box do? If you are going to do a lot of swapping then you might want to add pri=0 to the fstab. Here is what my fstab looks like. /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults,pri=0 0 0 /dev/sdb2 swap swap defaults,pri=0 0 0 /dev/sda2 swap swap defaults,pri=0 0 0 /dev/sdb3 swap swap defaults,pri=0 0 0 With pri=0 swap will be used on all partition at the same time. When you do not set pri=0 one swap partition will fill up first then the next and so on. But that would be over kill for most people. Only reason I have my swap setup that way is due to the way apache locks memory when you have 2000+ apache processes running. On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 22:16, Chris Sparks wrote: > Hi Gregory, > > >The "easy" thing to do in this case is abandon the miminal swap you have > >and just make another (larger) swap partition to be used instead. The > >size of a swap partition is a matter of debate, but generally it sould > >be equal to or no more than twice as large as your physical memory. > > > Since I originally started with 128 MB this makes sense why it suggested > 256 MB. I had to increase > the memory to 384 MB because of the boat load of seg faults I was getting. > > >If you actually have space on the disk around the swap partition that > >you can resize into, there is nothing that prevents resizing the > >partition and running "mkswap" on the resized space. There's no real > >magic about swap files/partitions. Of course, you'll have to resize and > >mkswap in "single user mode" with swap disabled while you're > >manipulating the system. > > > My swap is at the end of the hard disk so I would be possible to extend > into it. Actually I have > the boot first, / second, and the swap last. I just didn't want to > clobber anything on the root disk > if I resized into it with the swap. How does one know if it is safe to > go into those sectors without > worry? > > Also how do I go into single user mode? > > >I see your concern about having more than one swap file/partition, but > >I'd suggest thtat this isn't really something to worry about. Swap > >space shouldn't be a consideration in normaml operation, and using more > >than 1 file/partition should not effect efficiency. > > > I agree, however, I am still intruding into the root partitition anyway. > > Chris > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
