Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 08:09:19 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compiling Swap space Message-ID: <20180227080919.7a5578283960bb325b9b3d86@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20180227052346.B49171D9E572@ary.qy> References: <20180227040015.7d2fb579.freebsd@edvax.de> <20180227052346.B49171D9E572@ary.qy>
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On 27 Feb 2018 00:23:46 -0500 "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> wrote: > In article <20180227040015.7d2fb579.freebsd@edvax.de> you write: > >On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 19:46:34 -0700, The Doctor wrote: > >> I notice the default swap is 4G. > >> > >> How can that be increased to 32G or 64G? > > > >By repartitioning your drive. > > You can also use mdconfig to make an md device backed by a file and > swap on that. That's slower than a swap partition since it has to You don't need mdconfig, just make a large file and use swapon like this: # dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1m count=1024 # swapon swapfile > find the blocks using the filesystem, but you don't have to > repartition, just make a big file for it to swap to. All of these disadvantages apply. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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