Re: can swap space be resized ?

From: Aishwarya (aisinghal_at_sapient.com)
Date: 08/26/03 

Date: 26 Aug 2003 01:52:31 -0700

sallan1055@aol.com (sharona) wrote in message news:<7191cfcb.0308222042.23c10add@posting.google.com>...
>
> You can add swap space any time you need to and have the space for it.
> Do a man on swap. If you have the space you'ld do a mkfile
> whateversize filename and then a swap -a /path/to/newswapfile. You'll
> need to make sure it's added to the /etc/vfstab. To monitor swap
> space you'ld do a swap -l or a swap -s I believe.
>
> Sharona

Hi All,

Thanks for your advise(s). The box in question is indeed a solaris
box, i do appologise for missing out on mentioning that in the first
place. We are running a Solaris 8 patch Generic_108528-18.

hence, apart from swap -l and swap -s commands to get the picture of
swap space (which i must admit i wasnt aware of till now), if i do a
df -k, i get the following result:

Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
..
swap 528440 24 528416 1% /var/run
swap 542384 13968 528416 3% /tmp
...

Thanks once again for all your help guys!

Cheers
Aishwarya

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