Increasing Swap Space

AIX

1. Determine the current amount of paging space available to the server.

   # lsps -a

2. Increase Paging Space

   # mkps -n -s <# logical partitions> <volume group> <physical volume>

Linux Swap in LVM

1. Disable swap for the logical volume.

   # swapoff -v </dev/<volume group>/<swap logical volume>

2. Resize the logical volume.

   # lvresize </dev/<volume group>/<swap logical volume> -L +<SIZE>G

3. Format the new swap space.

   # mkswap </dev/<volume group>/<swap logical volume>

4. Enable the swap space.

   # swapon -v </dev/<volume group>/<swap logical volume>

Further Reading

1. Adding Swap Space