On 4/3/07, Pham Hai <haisoncompany at 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? > 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.