swapspace

[Niles Rogoff]

Never used swapfile, but it would be simple enough to create a file of ~2
GB (or however much you need), adding it to /etc/fstab and using swapon

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have installed swapspace [1] on 12.04 from the ubuntu repo, which
> should give me a dynamic swapfile.  If I do
> sudo service swapspace status
> it tells me it is running, and if I tell it to restart it does so
> without error.  However System Monitor says that swap is not available
> and in top is shows 0 free.  Does anyone know whether that is that as
> it should be or is swapspace not working?
>
> Colin
>
> [1] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/swapspace.8.html
>
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