Category: swap space

These steps will create an additional swap partition on your system. 1. Create swap partition (This example uses IDE 2nd drive (/dev/hdb), 2nd partition). Use n command and make partition. Change ID to 82 by using t command.At a command prompt type fdisk /dev/hdb 2. Make swap space using mkswap. At a command prompt type […]

Here is a small utility I have used to check the amount of swap space on linux machines. Generally you would like to have 1 to 1.5 times the amount of swap space as you have RAM. On a linux machine you can check the swap values with the following command run from a command […]