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# 8  
Old 02-18-2016
Thanks for the reply, I don't want to add a swapfile so where are the settings for the swap volume (in my case /tmp) to be increased? I can see where it is in /etc/vsftab but not sure where it is allocated. can you tell me how to increase the swap volume please?
# 9  
Old 02-19-2016
/tmp is a memory file system.
Please give the output of the following commands:
Code:
swap -s
swap -l
df -k /tmp
grep swap /etc/vfstab

# 10  
Old 02-19-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by thefroggy
Thanks for the reply, I don't want to add a swapfile
Why? That would be by far the simplest solution.
Quote:
can you tell me how to increase the swap volume please?
You generally don't, what you can do is add another swap device (or swap file, as already stated.)
Last edited by jlliagre; 02-19-2016 at 09:24 AM..
# 11  
Old 02-19-2016
I added a 50GB drive and included in swap. and also a file of 40GB. this fixed the issue but was really badly written code that is causing this. I have 150GB of swap for 65GB ram. thanks to all for the help.
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