SCO OPEN SERVER QUESTION
Luis Carlos Diaz Otero asked how to add swap space on the fly on SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 after adding RAM. Ruben Dutan suggested divvy and then swap. Art Kagel suggested swapon on most Unixes. Lucky Leavell advised swap -a as a quick fix, added to rc2.d for reboots, with divvy longer term, and warned about kernel dumps if swap is smaller than RAM.
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This is not an Informix question, but can anybody tell me how can i get more swap space on the fly?: I increased the RAM and of course the SO needs more swap. SO: SCO OPEN SERVER 5.0.5 THANKS IN ADVANCE AND HAPPY NEW CENTURY ===== ______________________________________ Luis Carlos D'az Otero ALCANOS DE COLOMBIA S.A. E.S.P Carrera 9 # 7-25 Neiva (Huila (Colombia)) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Obtenga su direcci'n de correo-e gratis @yahoo.com en http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com
Well, in some partition or disk must has space. if exists space use "divvy " command for to assign and then "swap" command Regards Ruben In article <92ghl3$foq$1@news.xmission.com>, =?iso-8859-1?q?Luis=20Carlos=20Diaz=20Otero?= <luiscarlosdiazo@yahoo.com> wrote: > > This is not an Informix question, but can anybody tell > me how can i get more swap space on the fly?: I > increased the RAM and of course the SO needs more > swap. > > SO: SCO OPEN SERVER 5.0.5 > > THANKS IN ADVANCE AND HAPPY NEW CENTURY > > ===== > ______________________________________ > Luis Carlos D'az Otero > ALCANOS DE COLOMBIA S.A. E.S.P > Carrera 9 # 7-25 > Neiva (Huila (Colombia)) > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Obtenga su direcci'n de correo-e gratis @yahoo.com > en http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
I don't remember SOS well but on most UNIXes the command is 'swapon' to dynamically add swap partitions. Just prepare a disk partition somewhere and run: swapon <devicepath> or add the swap device to /etc/fstabs and run: swapon -a Art S. Kagel Luis Carlos Diaz Otero wrote: > > This is not an Informix question, but can anybody tell > me how can i get more swap space on the fly?: I > increased the RAM and of course the SO needs more > swap. > > SO: SCO OPEN SERVER 5.0.5 > > THANKS IN ADVANCE AND HAPPY NEW CENTURY > > ===== > ______________________________________ > Luis Carlos Díaz Otero > ALCANOS DE COLOMBIA S.A. E.S.P > Carrera 9 # 7-25 > Neiva (Huila (Colombia)) > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Obtenga su dirección de correo-e gratis @yahoo.com > en http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, [iso-8859-1] Luis Carlos Diaz Otero wrote: > > This is not an Informix question, but can anybody tell > me how can i get more swap space on the fly?: I > increased the RAM and of course the SO needs more > swap. > Yes, you do a quick & dirty by using the swap -a command; see the man page on swap for details including the need to add the command to your /etc/rc2.d directory so it will be there after the next reboot. Long term, the best bet is to use divvy to expand the swap area but this will probably require a reinstall of the OS (or the use of a third party backup/crash recovery product such as Lone-TAR/Arbag - highly recommended anyway!) If you cannot expand the swap area, you may add a non-contiguous partition using swap -a again but be aware that if your primary swap area is smaller than your RAM size, you will not get a dump in the event of a kernel panic. (I know SCO allows dump partitions but if you have that much extra disk space to burn you shouldn't have any problem coming up with a single swap partition large enough.) Thank you, Lucky Lucky Leavell Phone: (800) 481-2393 or (812) 366-4066 UniXpress - Your Source for SCO FAX: (888) 231-9640 or (812) 366-3618 1560 Zoar Church Road NE Email: lucky@UniXpress.com Corydon, IN 47112-7374 WWW Home Page: http://www.UniXpress.com