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[Cheung_2]

I have checked ( by the command ???swap??? ) the swap memory is running so high , how can I increase the swapinfo memory ? Is there any pitfall if I increase it? Thx.

[Rajeev Shukla · Accepted solution]

You need to extend the swap size by adding one more device swap.
create a logical volume with contageous space and then add it in /etc/fstab and use swapon to activate the swap. You may even use sam for ease if you want so

Cheers
Rajeev

[Niraj Kumar Verma]

Hi,

to the swap
# swapinfo -t

you can increas this using SAM --> Disk and File system --> Swap

-Niraj

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

you need to increase the swap

sam-->disk and file system -->logical volumes -->action, create, in file system field choose swap and priority as 1

[T G Manikandan]

#lvcreate -L size -n swap vgxx

vgxx--name of the volume group
L--size of the logical volume
n--logical volume name
vgxx is the volume group where you have enough space.
Edit the /etc/fstab file and add
/dev/vgxx/swap ... swap defaults 0 0
Activate the swap

#swapon -a

[T G Manikandan]

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Thanks

[Cheung_2]

I would like to increase the swap , can i specify the swap on a path eg. /usr/swap instead of a whole volumn ? thx.

[T G Manikandan]

You can use swapon for that.
check the man pages of swapon.


YOu can do that like

#/usr/sbin/swapon -r 10000 -p 2 /paging