topic Re: swapon problem in Operating System - HP-UX

swapon problem

amit singh_3 — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 06:56:36 GMT

hey ,
I have fired swapon command & it giving me following error.

#lvcreate -L 2M -n testme /dev/vg00
#swapon /dev/vg00/testme;echo $?
Swapon:The kernel tunable parameter
"maxswapchunks" needs to be increased to add.
Paging on device /dev/vgoo/testme.
1
but the following command is working,

# swapon -p 4 -l 1M /home Why?

pls help me......

Amit singh

Re: swapon problem

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 07:42:15 GMT

Hi

This should help:-

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=143962

Paula

Re: swapon problem

donne007 — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 12:57:28 GMT

Hi
Try Recreating the lvol firts, then increase the maxswapchumks to max 16 Gb .. this shouwld work hope fully

Good Luck
Asif

Re: swapon problem

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:29:46 GMT

For someone that seems new, forgive me if I'm wrong, try sam kernel configurable parameters to change the swapchunks as recommened in the prior posts.

SEP