07-05-2001
Virtual Memory / Swap Area
Greetings all,
I am Running SunOS 4.1.4 2 w/ Sparcstation 20. It's got 256 megs of ram, and it appears that there isn't a swap file setup.
When I execute vmstat 5 under the Memory column I am concerened about the following stat
avm
0
I used format to determine how the partitions are layed out and found one on sd0 partition b. I have read that SunOS normally puts the swap area here. But fstab did not have any entries for a swap area. So I added to fstab
/dev/sd0b / swap sw 0 0
the executed swapon -a
No messages but when viewing vmstat I still have avm = 0
Any ideas on how to determine if the swap area is active or defined?
Thanks,
Don
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
systemd.swap
SYSTEMD.SWAP(5) systemd.swap SYSTEMD.SWAP(5)
NAME
systemd.swap - systemd swap configuration files
SYNOPSIS
systemd.swap
DESCRIPTION
A unit configuration file whose name ends in .swap encodes information about a swap device or file for memory paging controlled and
supervised by systemd.
This man page lists the configuration options specific to this unit type. See systemd.unit(5) for the common options of all unit
configuration files. The common configuration items are configured in the generic [Unit] and [Install] sections. The swap specific
configuration options are configured in the [Swap] section.
Swap units must be named after the devices (resp. files) they control. Example: the swap device /dev/sda5 must be configured in a unit file
dev-sda5.swap. For details about the escaping logic used to convert a file system path to a unit name see systemd.unit(5).
All swap units automatically get the appropriate dependencies on the devices (resp. on the mount points of the files) they are activated
from.
Swap units with DefaultDependencies= enabled implicitly acquire a conflicting dependency to umount.target so that they are deactivated at
shutdown.
FSTAB
Swap units may either be configured via unit files, or via /etc/fstab (see fstab(5) for details).
If a swap device or file is configured in both /etc/fstab and a unit file the configuration in the latter takes precedence.
Unless the noauto option is set for them all swap units configured in /etc/fstab are also added as requirements to swap.target, so that
they are waited for and activated during boot.
OPTIONS
Swap files must include a [Swap] section, which carries information about the swap device it supervises. A number of options that may be
used in this section are shared with other unit types. These options are documented in systemd.exec(5). The options specific to the [Swap]
section of swap units are the following:
What=
Takes an absolute path of a device node or file to use for paging. See swapon(8) for details. If this refers to a device node, a
dependency on the respective device unit is automatically created. (See systemd.device(5) for more information.) If this refers to a
file, a dependency on the respective mount unit is automatically created. (See systemd.mount(5) for more information.) This option is
mandatory.
Priority=
Swap priority to use when activating the swap device or file. This takes an integer. This setting is optional.
TimeoutSec=
Configures the time to wait for the swapon command to finish. If a command does not exit within the configured time the swap will be
considered failed and be shut down again. All commands still running will be terminated forcibly via SIGTERM, and after another delay
of this time with SIGKILL. (See KillMode= below.) Takes a unit-less value in seconds, or a time span value such as "5min 20s". Pass 0
to disable the timeout logic. Defaults to 90s.
KillMode=
Specifies how processes of this swap shall be killed. One of control-group, process, none.
This option is mostly equivalent to the KillMode= option of service files. See systemd.service(5) for details.
KillSignal=
Specifies which signal to use when killing a process of this swap. Defaults to SIGTERM.
SendSIGKILL=
Specifies whether to send SIGKILL to remaining processes after a timeout, if the normal shutdown procedure left processes of the swap
around. Takes a boolean value. Defaults to "yes".
SEE ALSO
systemd(1), systemctl(8), systemd.unit(5), systemd.exec(5), systemd.device(5), systemd.mount(5), swapon(8)
AUTHOR
Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Developer
systemd 10/07/2013 SYSTEMD.SWAP(5)