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Old 03-20-2010
Releasing the swap space Solaris
Hi Guys !

I have found this problem many times that the swap space (/tmp space more precisely )of my Server becomes full specially when i run a complete back up of the server .

once the /tmp space is full I am not able to run simple commands as i get error like :

fork no space

on checking df -hk , i could see that /tmp space which is also the swap space becomes full . on checking /tmp directory i could see there was nothing in that , thus i realized that this was due toh the long activity of backup done before and the server is not releasing this space .

In order to release this space i rebooted the system and the /tmp space was empty and probelm was fixed .

Can anybody suggest any other way of releasing the /tmp space ?

I am using Solaris 10 .
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Old 03-22-2010
Stopping as many process as possible?

The other option is to add some swap space either by adding more raw disk space or else using the swapon(1m) command to make a swapfile in a volume with spare space although that is not as quick as real swapfs swap space.
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Old 03-22-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by TonyFullerMalv
Stopping as many process as possible?
Which is conceptually similar to rebooting the OS.
Quote:
The other option is to add some swap space either by adding more raw disk space or else using the swapon(1m) command to make a swapfile in a volume with spare space although that is not as quick as real swapfs swap space.
Unlike most if not all Unix/Unix like variants, swapon isn't the Solaris way. Use instead:
Code:
swap -a <file or device>

Anyway, I'm confused as I already replied to that very same question here but it seems these postings have vanished ...

Just found you posted again the very same question in a new thread, this is pointless and unconstructive. Please follow up in the original one:
Releasing the swap space Solaris
Last edited by jlliagre; 03-22-2010 at 08:17 PM..
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Old 03-22-2010
swapon was a SunOS command, that was quite a while ago!
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Old 03-22-2010
Double post. Continued here.
Last edited by Scott; 03-22-2010 at 09:10 PM..
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