From: Rogier Goossens (goossens@cs.few.eur.nl)
Date: 02/02/93


From: goossens@cs.few.eur.nl (Rogier Goossens)
Subject: Re: need help with swapspace
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 15:37:38 GMT

jlowry@cih.hcuge.ch (LOWRY John (IG)) writes:
> touch swapfile
> mkswap /swapfile 4000
> swpon /swapfile
          ^^ a
    When I did this, I got error messages when the swap was used
    (something like pages getting lost or so. I don't remember exactly.)
    I solved this by using a swapfile of 4Mb+4Kb (in this case).
    I.e. I first create a file with a size of 4Mb+4Kb, and then I do
    mkswap and swapon.

Rogier
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