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Re: Is there a way to make the pi use swap?



On Friday 14 September 2018 23:36:27 Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Friday 14 September 2018 23:12:35 Alan Corey wrote:
> > Yeah, vmstat shows me
> >
> > procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system--
> > ------cpu----- r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi   
> > bo in   cs us sy id wa st 0  1 423424  43348  16380 212828    0    0
> > 6     6    3    2  8  1 92  0  0
> >
> > Do you have the sw field in your fstab?
>
> Do now, its down below but TLDR, so copied it again.
>
> > /var/swap2 none swap sw 0 0
>
> That's a swap"file". Using it is hard on the u-sd card. This swap is
> on a 300 meg/sec 120GB SSD. Ought to be 50x faster, making it
> semi-usable.
>
> > By the fsstab man page it's the type of the file system.  Or maybe
> > not.    The last 2 numbers have to do with dump/restore and fsck.
>
> Which don't apply to swap, so they could be removed.
>
> New line in etc/fstab that works for swapon -a now is:
>
> UUID=7b06d9bc-18f2-4c25-957d-f426141664b3 none swap defaults,nofail 0
> 0
>
> I nuked the /var/swap file, so we'll see how amanda works in 4 or 5
> hours.
>
> Thanks Alan.

Worked fine, shows amanda used a meg of that swap, with nothing left in 
the si/so columns. Tonight I'll leave LCNC running for S&G.


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