swap file and veritas volume manager

[cbc4u]

Can Veritas volume manager create and manage swap files.
Also does any one know where to buy or download the software?


Thanks, Jeff

 

[jimbopalmer]

Swap is usually a 'raw' partition, you could make 'raw' partitions in Veritas if you needed a swap larger than a single disk, but I am not sure if it would be faster

http://www.veritas.com/buy/BuyDetail.jhtml?id=1

http://www.veritas.com/products/cat...l?productId=volumemanagerwin&_requestid=60065

I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[Butterfly123]

As Jimbopalmer correctly said, the swap partition sits on raw file system. What best u could do is, if u have any disk which is not under control of veritas, create the swap partition over there and add it using swap -a.

If u want to use diskettes under veritas VxVM control, then create a swap file (using command mkfile) and add this file using swap -a cmd , everytime u boot the system. But the swap performance shall degrade.

Regds,

- Hemant
Networking and Systems Integration Group
Satyam Computer Services Ltd

 

[cbc4u]

I have a sunblade 1000 that has two 3 gig partitions
that are shown as swap when I type df -k but we are using cadence design tools that say we are out of swap space how do I know that these partitions are actually being utilized
by the kernal

Thanks Jeff

 

[mikeclark]

Top will show what swap is used. One thing to watch, Solaris uses the swap partitian for /tmp filesystem. This means that you can fill /tmp (if a process greates lots of temp files) and run yourself out of swap space.

 

[cbc4u]

do I simply type top as super user?

 

[mikeclark]

top is not included in the OS. You will need to download it from

http://www.sunfreeware.com.

It installs as a sun package with the pkgadd command.