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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Strange swap space problem, pls help. Post 33154 by champion on Wednesday 18th of December 2002 12:38:26 AM
Old 12-18-2002
Strange swap space problem, pls help.
During Sun Solaris 8 installation, I did allocate 1 G for the swap partition. By doing a "df -k" shows the swap space usage is only 1% even during the application server is heavily processing.

However, when I do a "vmstat", it shows that the swap memory free space is only 8816 out of 1419100.

This makes my other processing hang when my application server is heavily processing.

I wonder what determines the swap memory space and how to increase the free space for it.

Any idea and opinion are most welcome.

Thank you very much.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

swap-offset

SWAP-OFFSET(8)							    swap-offset 						    SWAP-OFFSET(8)

NAME

       swap-offset - program to calculate the offset of a swap file in a partition

SYNOPSIS

       swap-offset [<swap_file>]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the swap-offset.

       This manual page was written for the Debian(TM) distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       The programs s2disk and s2both can be used to save the state of the whole system to a swap partition or file and power off or suspend your
       system. After restarting your system it will be put back in the exact system state you left it (this is sometimes called hibernation).

       In the case of using a swap file you will have to specify the location of the swap file's header as the offset from the beginning of the
       partition that contains the swap file. The swap-offset utility can be used to determine this value.

SEE ALSO

       uswsusp.conf(8), s2disk(8)

       For more information see the HOWTO and the README

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Tim Dijkstra tim@famdijkstra.org for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). Permission is
       granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version
       published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

AUTHOR

       TimTim DijkstraDijkstra <tim@famdijkstra.org> <tim@famdijkstra.org>
	   Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2006 Tim Dijkstra

uswsusp 							   juni 24, 2006						    SWAP-OFFSET(8)
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