Bart Schaefer wrote:
On 4/3/07, Pham Hai haisoncompany@gmail.com wrote:
To install Oracle Database 10g, I need to increase the swap memory to 1004 MB.
Tangential aside: Does anyone have an informed opinion on whether the "swap should be double RAM" rule still makes sense?
It never did. I couldn't see why, if I upgraded my Pentium from 64 Mbytes+128 Mbytes I should add swap if I added 128 Mbytes RAM.
Couldsomebody explain how to do this the fastest way? Thanks!
Assuming you've got the free disk space:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=512K # mkswap swapfile # swapon swapfile
(replace "swapfile" above with an appropriate path for your system).
Eventually you should make a permanent swap out of a real disk partition, perhaps by adding a drive to the machine.
Why?