Ishaaq K Chandy wrote:
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> I'm trying to use a memory intensive program: AnyJ for Linux. The
> problem is that I only have 32MB of RAM and a 64MB swap partition. It's
> taking ages to load up. So I thought I would create a swap file, this is
> what I did:
This will make things _not_ faster! Buying another Ram stick will.
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> touch /path/newfile
dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/newfile bs=1k count=65536
> mkswap /path/newfile 65536
mkswap /path/newfile
> swapon /path/newfile
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> Then I ran AnyJ. However after some time I got errors that went
> *something* like this:
>
> bad swap file ...
> bad swap file ..
>
> What am I missing?
You need to actually allocate blocks on disk for the swapfile. It will
not grow dynamically. Therefore the dd command above is needed.
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Marc
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