avoiding swapfile problems

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1 total messages Started by Matt Emerson Fri, 31 Jul 1992 03:18

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Author: Matt Emerson
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 03:18

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A good way to avoid having the swapfile grow to fill your disk is to put
something like the following in /etc/swaptab

/private/vm/swapfile    lowat=20971520,hiwat=42000000

This way, the swapfile won't get any bigger than the value you set for hiwat.
I seem to remember that it's important not to add any spaces between
the comma or equals sign and their surrounding words.

When you reboot, the system will truncate the swapfile to whatever lowat is.
-matt
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Matt Emerson
matt@karazm.math.uh.edu

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