De-activate a swap partition

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 20 March 2006 00:25, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> Greetings Jeff,
>
> Jeff Vian wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 19:48 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >
> >
> > swapon -s gives a lot of detail about the actual swap usage.
>
> If you run top at the top of it's output there are memory usage statistics
> , If other says that 0 KB of  swap is being activily used , is it safe
> enough ,
> to turn off  swap on a partition as you describe ?
>
Mine was totally unused, so it wasn't a problem.  It was a second swap 
partition anyway.  I generally create a swap on both drives.  That way, if 
swap is needed, there is one available without having to change drive.  It's 
marginally faster.

Anne
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