Need to add swap space.. need help

[Chris Fadrowski]

I need to add additional swap space to a system running 64 gb of memory for Oracle. My default swap is only 8 gb (system supplied default). i would like add another 47 gb of swap. System is 11.31 IA64

My questions are, what "TYPE" of swap can i use. I have disk available on a SAN and that's where i will need to put it. VG10/lvol110. I think i want "device swap" but i am not sure. Can someone tell me if this is correct using device over "file system" and guide me on how to create?

[Pete Randall]

Chris,

Yes, you definitely want to go with device swap. File system swap is only appropriate if it's never going to be used because it is SLOW.

I would suggest you use the SAM replacement, SMH (I think - Systems Management Homepage - is that right?) to guide you through setting up your swap space.


Pete

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Definitely device versus file system.

http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-5804/ch03s04.html

http://docs.hp.com/en/V3crashDump1/11.31DumpWhitePaper.pdf

SEP

[johnsonpk]

Hi Chris,



The ideal swap configuration is device swap spread across multiple identical disks. Each quantity of swap space being equal in size. Worth to read this doc on below link
http://docs.hp.com/en/1219/tuningwp.html#swap

To create swap follow the below steps

1)create vg
#vgcreate swapvg

2)create lvol with equal size
#lvcreate -L vgswap

3)update the fstab
/dev/vgswap/lvol1 . swap defaults 0 0
4)use swapon -a for enable the swap


use swapinfo -tam for verifying swap space


thanks!
Johnson

[Ganesan R · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

Create the logical volume for your secondary swap.

#lvcreate -L 47000 -n swap -C y -r n /dev/vg10 ->Here the size is 47GB.

Note swap lv should be created with contiguous and bad block reallocation off. If you have already created the lv with default policies, remove that and recreate with above command.

#vi fstab and add a line as follows.

/dev/vg10/lvolnn ... swap pri=1 0 0
here nn is the lovol number. Then

#swapon -a (To enable all swaps in fstab)

#swapinfo -mat (To verify)

[Tingli]

Use sam, it is fairly straight forward to create swap space.

[Chris Fadrowski]

Thank you! i got it working. I got stuck because i had an existing lv so i had to use the -f option. it's working thanks again to all. points assigned.

[Pete Randall]

Tingli> Use sam

Not in 11.31!


Pete