hi,
> does it ever get used? do i have to enable something somewhere to make sure
> it gets used? here's the output of df:
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2 7872920 3926616 3546380 53% /
> /dev/hda1 51206 13282 35280 28% /boot
> /dev/hdc1 78786704 10252240 64532304 14% /home/web
> none 30464 0 30464 0% /dev/shm
df command does not reveal information regarding swap space usage.
instead use the following commands
$ free
$ cat /proc/swaps (shows the partition info if swap u created)
$ cat /proc/meminfo
> an additional question:
> i'm going to be putting more ram in this box, probably totalling 256 (right
> now it's stuck at 64). will i have to devote more hard disc to swap? if
> so, how?
it depends on the software/resource usage of u're system. if u are
planning/running
graphical intensive applications then surely u need to increase the swap space to be
on the safer front . (usually adopted method is twice the amount of ram)
there are 2 methods of creating swaps
1. if u have free unused space u can created a partition using tools such as fdisk.
note filesystem should be swap.then create the swap filesystem on the partition
using
commands like mkswap <partition u just created>. then mount the partition.use the
/etc/fstab file for mounting the swap partition
/dev/<partition> swap swap defaults 0 0
2. if u donot have free unused space but your root partion or any other partition is
quite
big to accomodate a file of size say 256MB then create a swap file instead of swap
partition. for example
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=1024
$ mkswap /extra-swap 262144
and mount this swap file "extra-swap" using /etc/fstab file
to check whether the swapfile created is indeed swap use
$ cat /proc/swaps
cheers
-rk-
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