On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, M.H.VanLeeuwen wrote:
> #swapoff -a
> #dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1k count=10000
> #mkswap swapfile
> #losetup /dev/loop3 swapfile
> #swapon /dev/loop3
> #free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 144044 141608 2436 120948 31968 29496
> -/+ buffers/cache: 80144 63900
> Swap: 9996 0 9996
Try actually using this swap space - cause pages to be swapped out, and
back in. Doing this caused a panic when I tried.
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