swapspace

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 18 October 2014 10:10:08 Colin Law did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On 18 October 2014 13:59, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 18 October 2014 14:52, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >> how did you set up /etc/swapspace.conf (note the manpage talks about
> >> it) ...
> > 
> > The Debian/Ubuntu package just gives you a ready-rolled one. I've
> > seldom tweaked it.
> 
> I have looked at/etc/swapspace and it is completely commented out.  In
> /etc/init.d/swapspace the options passed on start are just to run in
> daemon mode and make a pidfile, so basically it is running on
> defaults, whatever they are.
> 
> Colin

Interesting Colin, I don't even have that file on any of my 10.04.4 LTS 
machines.  swapspace is available but was not installed. Even on the 
memory limited (2Gb installed) machine controllers out in the shop. Had a 
power bump early last week so uptime on the shops machines is about 5 
days, but I do not see swap actually being used on these machines.

If swap is not being used, I don't see the need.  Please shine a light on 
this.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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