[CentOS] How to Increase Swap Memory in Centos 4.4?

[Bart Schaefer]

On 4/3/07, John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > Eventually you should make a permanent swap out of a real disk
> > partition, perhaps by adding a drive to the machine.
>
> Why?

That may be anoher "informed opinion" question.  I'm pretty sure that
at one time it was the case that it was more efficient to swap to a
device than to a file.  Also at boot time it'd be nice to mount the
swap before mounting the filesystems read/write.  And I would think
it's better to have all the swap in one continuous partition if you
can.

Of course the other thing he could do is swapoff and remove the file
once oracle is installed, on the grounds that the oracle engineers
don't know what they're talking about.