http://www.phys.ethz.ch/~franklin/Projects/dphys-swapfile/INSTALL author Neil Franklin, last modification 2006.09.15 copyright ETH Zuerich Physics Departement use under either modified/non-advertising BSD or GPL license To install/config/use dphys-swapfile do the following: Source install ============== 1. Download and unpack the .tar.gz archive file from: http://www.phys.ethz.ch/~franklin/Projects/dphys-swapfile.tar.gz or http://www.phys.ethz.ch/~franklin/Projects/dphys-swapfile-.tar.gz where last milestone/release is =20040729 make make install Configuration ============= 1. install this software 2. set up the config file (system wide /etc/default/dphys-swapfile or /etc/dphys-swapfile or both) if you dislike the defaults - They should be good enough for most sites 3. run the dphys-swapfile script at startup: - /sbin/dphys-swapfile setup - if you want to auto-resize when RAM changes - /sbin/dphys-swapfile swapon - allways and shutdown: - /sbin/dphys-swapfile swapoff - allways