Re: [Swarm-Support] Linux memory

[Russell Standish]

Yes, of course. The relevant commands are swapon and swapoff for
adding and removing swap files. Use mkswap to make a swap file. Read
the relevant man pages to find out how to use these. swapon and
swapoff need to be executed as root.

Having said that, increasing your swap probably will not help
you. Relying on paging to solve problems larger than physical RAM
tends to be woefully inefficient - recasting your problem using an
appropriate "out of core" algorithm will most like yield far better
performance. 

                                                Cheers

Li An wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am still vexed by the memory problem, and any suggestions will be 
> appreciated. In addition to the last solution (buy a new memory chip and 
> increase the physical memory), is there any way to "borrow" some memory 
> from hard drive in Linux? Like what we do in Windows, increase the virtual 
> memory? or swapped memory, or resident memory?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Li
> 
> 
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