30 Apr 15 Quick guide to configuring secondary hp-ux swap

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disk5 is designated as swap disk, size 128 GB. Server has 64 GB of RAM.

pvcreate /dev/rdisk/disk5
vgcreate -p 10 -l 10 /dev/vgswap /dev/disk/disk5

vgdisplay /dev/vgswap
vgdisplay -v /dev/vgswap
lvcreate -l 32767 -n lv_swap /dev/vgswap
swapinfo -tam
swapon -p 2 /dev/vgswap/lv_swap
vi /etc/fstab
/dev/vgswap/lv_swap … swap pri=2 0 0

swapinfo -tam
Mb Mb Mb PCT START/ Mb
TYPE AVAIL USED FREE USED LIMIT RESERVE PRI NAME
dev 24576 0 24576 0% 0 – 1 /dev/vg00/lvol2
dev 131068 0 131064 0% 0 – 2 /dev/vgswap/lv_swap
reserve – 290 -290
memory 62330 7566 54764 12%
total 217974 7856 210114 4% – 0 –

A reboot test is recommended where possible.

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