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<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 20:56, 27 December 2007</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Swap needed to be increased to 8GB from 4GB on a RHEL 5 system. All hard drive space was already allocated, so I had to create a swap file (''/files0/swapfile'' in this example) instead of a swap partition.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Swap needed to be increased to 8GB from 4GB on a RHEL 5 system. All hard drive space was already allocated, so I had to create a swap file (''/files0/swapfile'' in this example) instead of a swap partition.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Procedure ==</div></td><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> $ '''free'''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> $ '''free'''</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 10:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> -/+ buffers/cache: 293980 7883404</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> -/+ buffers/cache: 293980 7883404</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> Swap: '''4192912''' 0 4192912</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> Swap: '''4192912''' 0 4192912</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Procedure ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Create the 4GB swap file.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Create the 4GB swap file.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 20:56, 27 December 2007</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Swap needed to be increased to 8GB from 4GB on a RHEL 5 system. All hard drive space was already allocated, so I had to create a swap file (''/files0/swapfile'' in this example) instead of a swap partition.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Swap needed to be increased to 8GB from 4GB on a RHEL 5 system. All hard drive space was already allocated, so I had to create a swap file (''/files0/swapfile'' in this example) instead of a swap partition.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Procedure ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> $ '''free'''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> $ '''free'''</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 20:53, 27 December 2007</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 17:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 17:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> # '''mkswap /files0/swapfile'''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> # '''mkswap /files0/swapfile'''</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 4294963 kB</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 4294963 kB</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Enable the <del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">swapfile </del>immediately.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Enable the <ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">swap file </ins>immediately.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> # '''swapon /files0/swap file'''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> # '''swapon /files0/swap file'''</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Enable the swap file after reboot.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Enable the swap file after reboot.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Add the following to ''/etc/fstab'':</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Add the following to ''/etc/fstab'':</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> /files0/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> /files0/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Confirm the swap file has been added to swap.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> $ '''free'''</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> total used free shared buffers cached</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> Mem: 8177384 8058892 118492 0 116668 7534592</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> -/+ buffers/cache: 407632 7769752</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> Swap: '''8387208''' 0 8387208</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Links ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Links ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-swap-adding.html Adding Swap Space]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-swap-adding.html Adding Swap Space]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p><span class="autocomment">Links</span></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 20:50, 27 December 2007</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 23:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 23:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> /files0/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> /files0/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Links ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Links ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [ http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-swap-adding.html Adding Swap Space ]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-swap-adding.html Adding Swap Space]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 20:50, 27 December 2007</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 22:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 22:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Add the following to ''/etc/fstab'':</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Add the following to ''/etc/fstab'':</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> /files0/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> /files0/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Links ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [ http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-swap-adding.html Adding Swap Space ]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 20:50, 27 December 2007</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Overview ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Overview ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Swap needed to be increased to 8GB from 4GB on a RHEL 5 system. All hard drive space was already allocated, so I had to create a <del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">swapfile </del>(''/files0/swapfile'' in this example) instead of a swap partition.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Swap needed to be increased to 8GB from 4GB on a RHEL 5 system. All hard drive space was already allocated, so I had to create a <ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">swap file </ins>(''/files0/swapfile'' in this example) instead of a swap partition.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> $ '''free'''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> $ '''free'''</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 9:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 9:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> Swap: '''4192912''' 0 4192912</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> Swap: '''4192912''' 0 4192912</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Create the 4GB <del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">swapfile</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Create the 4GB <ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">swap file</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> # '''dd if=/dev/zero of=/files0/swapfile bs=1024 count=4194304'''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> # '''dd if=/dev/zero of=/files0/swapfile bs=1024 count=4194304'''</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> 4194304+0 records in</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> 4194304+0 records in</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> 4194304+0 records out</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> 4194304+0 records out</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> 4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 36.1759 seconds, 119 MB/s</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> 4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 36.1759 seconds, 119 MB/s</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Setup the <del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">swapfile</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Setup the <ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">swap file</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> # '''mkswap /files0/swapfile'''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> # '''mkswap /files0/swapfile'''</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 4294963 kB</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 4294963 kB</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Enable the swapfile immediately.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Enable the swapfile immediately.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> # '''swapon /files0/<del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">swapfile</del>'''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> # '''swapon /files0/<ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">swap file</ins>'''</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Enable the <del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">swapfile </del>after reboot.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Enable the <ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">swap file </ins>after reboot.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Add the following to ''/etc/fstab'':</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Add the following to ''/etc/fstab'':</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> /files0/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> /files0/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>New page: == Overview == Swap needed to be increased to 8GB from 4GB on a RHEL 5 system. All hard drive space was already allocated, so I had to create a swapfile (''/files0/swapfile'' in this exam...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Overview ==<br /> <br /> Swap needed to be increased to 8GB from 4GB on a RHEL 5 system. All hard drive space was already allocated, so I had to create a swapfile (''/files0/swapfile'' in this example) instead of a swap partition.<br /> <br /> $ '''free'''<br /> total used free shared buffers cached<br /> Mem: 8177384 4098900 4078484 0 133220 3671700<br /> -/+ buffers/cache: 293980 7883404<br /> Swap: '''4192912''' 0 4192912<br /> <br /> * Create the 4GB swapfile.<br /> # '''dd if=/dev/zero of=/files0/swapfile bs=1024 count=4194304'''<br /> 4194304+0 records in<br /> 4194304+0 records out<br /> 4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 36.1759 seconds, 119 MB/s<br /> * Setup the swapfile.<br /> # '''mkswap /files0/swapfile'''<br /> Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 4294963 kB<br /> * Enable the swapfile immediately.<br /> # '''swapon /files0/swapfile'''<br /> * Enable the swapfile after reboot.<br /> Add the following to ''/etc/fstab'':<br /> /files0/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0</div>

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