Deconfiguring swap

[Berd]

Hello all,

I am running 11.31 on rx6600. This box was previously suffering from a performance issue and as part of this I added a secondary swap area, /dev/vgmisc/moreswap, which is not really needed. The performance issues lay elsewhere.

/etc # swapinfo -tam
Mb Mb Mb PCT START/ Mb
TYPE AVAIL USED FREE USED LIMIT RESERVE PRI NAME
dev 8192 122 8070 1% 0 - 1 /dev/vg00/lvol2
dev 8280 38 8242 0% 0 - 1 /dev/vgmisc/moreswap
reserve - 13269 -13269
memory 15555 5392 10163 35%
total 32027 18821 13206 59% - 0 -

I now need to deactivate volume group vgmisc so that I can increase the max physical volumes parameter, nice touch in 11.31. My problem is can I deactivate the secondary swap area so that I can do this without a reboot. I would have hoped there was a swapoff command ;-)

Cheers,
Berd

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately, no. There is no "swapoff" command. The only way to deactivate it would be to remove the entry from fstab and reboot.


Pete

[Berd]

Thanks Pete,

I was hoping maybe 11.31 might have made things a little easier, never mind.

Berd