1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

All, I am using SOLARIS 7. I have formated my hard drive to consist of only 150MB of swap space. This isn't enough considering I am running Oracle. How do I create additional swap space? Please list sources or commands. PS mkswap doesn't work on my machine. ( I have swap and... (5 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I would like to know if there is any difference between the pageing space and the swap space. Thank you in advance. (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I checked the server and issued various command to investigated. but from teh output of swap -s and swap -l, i received the following swap -l swapfile dev swaplo blocks free /dev/vx/dsk/swapvol 197,7 16 4194800 4127696 /dev/vx/dsk/swap2 197,8 16 12582896... (3 Replies)

4. AIX

how do you get the paging space reduced without rebooting the machine ? the os is aix (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Plz I need to know how much swap mem free and used i have. I'm using Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1A (rev 1885) Thanx (1 Reply)

6. Linux

Hi, I want to know how can i free the swap space if it is completely full, 0 mb remaining, (1 Reply)

7. Solaris

Could someone please explain how you know how much swap space you have on your system. See below: # swap -s total: 8225048k bytes allocated + 4863488k reserved = 13088536k used, 4008032k available # swap -l swapfile dev swaplo blocks free /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s1 32,25 16... (2 Replies)

8. Linux

Hi, i have done a blunder here, i increased the swap space on Xen5.6 server machine using below steps :- 1056 dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/myswapfile bs=1M count=1024 1057 ls -l /root/myswapfile 1058 chmod 600 /root/myswapfile 1059 mkswap /root/myswapfile 1060 swapon /root/myswapfile ... (1 Reply)

9. Red Hat

CENT OS 5.8 server running with a huge java application which uses up all my ram (4GB) and requires excess of atleast 2GB.But the swap is not getting used up((8GB) of swap space left unused) leading a wierd error and stopping application to stop working. Any one here dealt with the same kind of... (2 Replies)

10. Red Hat

I've to install Oracle binaries (I'm oracle DBA) and for that I've extend swap space in my home computer. My situation is like this. # parted -s /dev/sda print free Model: ATA VBOX HARDDISK (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 38.7GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos ... (1 Reply)