https://www.disfinder.com/en/tags/swap/Recent content in Swap on disfinder.com 🇺🇸Hugoen-USThu, 14 Aug 2008 19:06:00 +0000https://www.disfinder.com/en/posts/2008/08/14/Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:06:00 +0000https://www.disfinder.com/en/posts/2008/08/14/<p>Creating a swap file in FreeBSD</p> <ol> <li>Make sure the virtual disk driver (md(4)) is present in the kernel configuration file. It is included in the GENERIC kernel.</li> </ol> <pre tabindex="0"><code>device md # Memory &#34;disks&#34;</code></pre><ol start="2"> <li>Create a swap file (/usr/swap0):</li> </ol> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-shell" data-lang="shell"><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#75715e"># dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap0 bs=1024k count=64</span></span></span></code></pre></div><ol start="3"> <li>Set appropriate permissions on (/usr/swap0):</li> </ol> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-shell" data-lang="shell"><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#75715e"># chmod 0600 /usr/swap0</span></span></span></code></pre></div><ol start="4"> <li>Enable the swap file in /etc/rc.conf:</li> </ol> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-txt" data-lang="txt"><span style="display:flex;"><span>swapfile=&#34;/usr/swap0&#34; # Set to name of swapfile if aux swapfile desired.</span></span></code></pre></div><ol start="5"> <li>Reboot the computer, or to enable swap right now enter:</li> </ol> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-txt" data-lang="txt"><span style="display:flex;"><span># mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /usr/swap0 -u 0 &amp;&amp; swapon /dev/md0</span></span></code></pre></div>