Increasing Swap Space
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AIX 7.1
- Determine the current amount of paging space available to the server.
- # lsps -a
- Determine the size of a logical partition.
- # lslv <ps logical Volume>
- Increase the number of logical partitions.
- # chps -s <# logical partitions> <ps logical volume>
Linux Swap in a Partition
Linux Swap in LVM
- Disable swap for the logical volume.
- # swapoff -v </dev/<volume group>/<swap logical volume>
- Resize the logical volume.
- # lvresize </dev/<volume group>/<swap logical volume> -L +<SIZE>G
- Format the new swap space.
- # mkswap </dev/<volume group>/<swap logical volume>
- Enable the swap space.
- # swapon -v </dev/<volume group>/<swap logical volume>