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Showing posts with label mkswap. Show all posts

01 March 2008

Dynamic Swap Space

Yet another reason why Linux is amazing. I'm pretty much out of RAM, and running out of swap space, because I'm a process whore and I have way too much stuff open. I don't want to permanently increase my swap space, just at the moment I need more, and I certainly don't want to restart to increase it, that kind of defeats the point.

dd bs=512 count=1M if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swap
mkswap /tmp/swap
sudo swapon /tmp/swap.


Problem solved. I should've switched to Linux years ago.