On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Brian Toscano wrote:

> Could someone please tell me how to setup the swap on the server?
> Is it just a directory?  Do I need to create a file also?
> 
you need to make a file. Under SunOS I know you can:

  mkfile size[k|b|m] filename

so to create an 8MB swap file you would:

  mkfile 8m foo.swap

I'm not sure if that works under Solaris tho.
 
Under NetBSD you could use:
  
   dd if=/dev/zero of=foo.swap bs=8327168
(i think)

and I would imagine that the 'dd' version would work for Solaris too.

After that you just point the swap= line to that file.

rob



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