http://dannyman.toldme.com/2006/10/24/howto-swapon-file/ Interesting bits of information and editorial, evolving online since 1995. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://dannyman.toldme.com/2006/10/24/howto-swapon-file/comment-page-1/#comment-75136 Anonymous Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:34:51 +0000 http://dannyman.toldme.com/2006/10/24/howto-swapon-file/#comment-75136 And if you would like to make the swap permanent? And if you would like to make the swap permanent?

]]> http://dannyman.toldme.com/2006/10/24/howto-swapon-file/comment-page-1/#comment-30173 Brian Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:54:11 +0000 http://dannyman.toldme.com/2006/10/24/howto-swapon-file/#comment-30173 Rather than striping swap space (which is generally overkill), a nice way to go about it is to create a swap partition on each disk and mount them all with pri=0 (man swapon, check out –p ). The kernel will round-robin the swap files, so you have some pseudo-striping going on, yet a drive failure won't leave you without any swap. Rather than striping swap space (which is generally overkill), a nice way to go about it is to create a swap partition on each disk and mount them all with pri=0 (man swapon, check out –p ). The kernel will round-robin the swap files, so you have some pseudo-striping going on, yet a drive failure won’t leave you without any swap.

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