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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