Increasing Swap Space
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AIX
- Determine the current amount of paging space available to the server.
- # lsps -a
- Increase Paging Space
- # mkps -n -s <# logical partitions> <volume group> <physical volume>
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>