swapspace

[Colin Law]

On 17 October 2014 17:14, Niles Rogoff <nilesrogoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

I want to use a dynamic swap file as 2GB would be 10% of my available space.

Colin

>
> 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