Alternative to swap partition: swapfile

[Martin Langhoff]

   dd if=/dev/zero of=/extraswap bs=1M count=128
   mkswap /extraswap
   swapon /extraswap

Twiddle sysctl.conf to lower swappiness.

cheers,



m
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