virtual memory hogging problem...

Logan Kennelly plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Mon, 17 Jun 2002 13:12:41 -0700


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On Monday 17 June 2002 12:36 pm, John (EBo) David wrote:
> If anyone can point me to how to create a file on a partition and use
> that for swap space, or any other solution which comes to mind I would
> be most appreciative...

Everything is a file in Unix.

dd if=/dev/zero of=file count=1500000
mkswap file
swapon file

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