swap or not?

Wed Feb 6 12:27:06 PST 2002

Thanks to all who replied to my original question.  While I received no 
solid evidence that "/sbin/swapoff -a" is unworkable, I've decided to 
implement something like this as suggested by Jim Phillips:

 if [ $ppn = "1" ]
 then
       MAXMEM=1572864
 else
       MAXMEM=786432
 fi
 ulimit -m $MAXMEM
 ulimit -d $MAXMEM

...in my job launching scripts.  That's for systems with 1.5G memory.  I 
did test swapoff on 2.2.16 and 2.4.7 kernels with no ill effects.

-Galen