Sorry but I forgot to mention that I am doing it in my Solaris machine.
I allocated 600M of disk space for swap mounted on /tmp directory. df on
Solaris will show the /tmp space usage.
Thanks.
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 09:17, Pablo Manalastas wrote:
> On 14 Jan 2003, lito lampitoc wrote:
>
> > use=`/usr/bin/df -h|grep swap|awk -F" " '{print $5}'`
> > if use="0%";
> > then
> > cat /dev/null 2>&1;
> > elif use = "99%";
> > then
> > /usr/bin/rm /tmp/* > /dev/null 2>&1;
> > fi
>
> I think I'm losing touch here, but on my machine /bin/df shows
> space used and available on each mounted fs partition. It does
> not show swap space usage. /usr/bin/free does, however, show
> swap space used and available. Also, what does removing files
> from /tmp have to do with freeing swap space? What happens to
> critical files in /tmp, like mysql sockets? Mysql will fail
> when this is done. Isn't swap part of the virtual memory system
> of Linux, and as such /bin/rm is not the proper tool to manage it?
>
> P~Manalastas
>
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