[PLUG] Linux server constantly rebooting.

[AthlonRob]

On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 01:09, Josh Orchard wrote:

> Is there some way to test for that?  Can I create another swap like a
> file since I can't make another partition now.  I knew in HP you could
> add to the swap space by defining a file then make that file the
> primary swap.  Not very efficient but worked.  Anything similar for
> linux?

I realize you seem to have ruled out a bad swap partition, so this may
not be much help... but is a worthy tip for folks, regardless.

To use a swap file instead of a swap partition, or in addition to (you
can create these on the fly if you find you need more swap in the middle
of something)... 

dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/swap/file bs=1M count=n
...where n is the number of megabytes you want the swap file to be.

mkswap /path/to/swap/file
swapon /path/to/swap/file

...and bam, you've got more swap.

Rob