Messages in this thread |  | | From | "ashridah" <> | Subject | Re: mount /dev/hdb2 /usr; swapon /dev/hdb2 keeps flooding | Date | 12 May 2001 21:17:57 EST |
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On Sun, 13 May 2001 01:00:39 +0200 (CEST), BERECZ Szabolcs said:
> Hi! > > root@kama3:/home/szabi# cat /proc/mounts > ... > /dev/hdb2 /usr ext2 rw 0 0 > ... > root@kama3:/home/szabi# swapon /dev/hdb2 [snip]
hmm. while the technical issues of this situation are fairly interesting, can i make a suggestion? if you're running out of swap every now and then, perhaps you need to use swapd (a userspace daemon, that adds more swap from swapfiles as you need it, and recovers the space when things become less pressing). that's much better than trying it by hand when necessary. As you've noticed, we're all only human, and mistakes can be made.
swapd: http://cvs.linux.hr/swapd/
as a side bonus, you get to keep that partition as a filesystem, and also dedicate it to being the swapfile holder.
while this is a solution i'd never go in for (userspace is slightly more fallible than i like (which doesn't stop me from using devfsd) given the situation swapd needs to act in), but it's better than doing it by hand, no?
Andrew 'ashridah' Pilley
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