swapon problem

[amit singh_3]

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

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

This should help:-

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


Paula

[donne007]

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

Good Luck
Asif

[Steven E. Protter]

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