Resizing swap space on VMWare ESX Linux

Sanjay Chakraborty sanjaychakrab at gmail.com
Fri Jul 25 22:03:59 UTC 2008


Resize swap space is only possible by creating 1st other eswap space,
close all applicaton (very less memory use) swapoff the first swap and
then claim back by format different filesystem and then turn on the
other swap. These are my guess I did not do anything like this.

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:11 AM, sunhux G <sunhux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We've over-allocated the swap space on a newly installed
> VMWARE ESX - 6Gb.
>
> I was told that 800MB is the max & possibly 600MB for
> swap space is sufficient though the VMWare blade comes
> with 32Gb memory.
>
> How can I reduce the swap space size without reinstalling
> the ESX?
>
>
> Thanks
> U
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Sanjay Chakraborty




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