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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