How to distribute the swap memory across the disks ?

depends on your OS.
Either you need to make special swap partitions, and/or use the swap command to add prepared files to the swap area (man swap)

Hi,

I am working on Solaris OS 2.x (UNIX)
I would like to make parititions across the different disks.

I have Swap memory about 500MB in one disk.
I would like to distribute this swap across 5 disks.

Could you please tell me which is the best way ?

Thanks & Regards
sganta

Hi,

Thanks for your prompt answer.

I am new to the Sysadmin tools. Could you please
give me the syntax  to do the partition.

Hi,

Thanks for your prompt answer.

I am new to the Sysadmin tools. Could you please
give me the syntax  to do the partition.

man format
man swap      # or see my comment

What ahoffmann told is correct.
Pls look into this.

1. Create a file in each disk using mkfile command
eg:  # mkfile 100 m  /opt/addlswap
 Where  100 m is the file size ie. 100 MB
2.  Add this file to swap
eg:  #/usr/sbin/swap -a   /opt/addlswap
 3. Now this is added to swap space. But this is only temporary.
 After rebooting this will not be available. So make an entry in
/etc/vfstab
 eg:   add the following entry in /etc/vfstab
  /opt/addlswap  -   -   swap  -  no  -
4. The modified swap size can be viewed by  swap -l command
     This will be in 512 K block size
    Use swap -s to view in 1024 k block size


JP

Thanks to all of you for your favours towards me !

Best Regards
sganta