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SWAPON(8)

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NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     swapon, swapoff, swapctl -- specify devices for paging and swapping

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     swapon file ...
     swapon -a
     swapoff file ...
     swapoff -a
     swapctl [-AhklsU] [-a file ... | -d file ...]

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     The swapon, swapoff and swapctl utilities are used to control swap
     devices in the system.  At boot time all swap entries in /etc/fstab are
     added automatically when the system goes multi-user.  Swap devices use a
     fixed interleave; the maximum number of devices is specified by the kernel
 configuration option NSWAPDEV, which is typically set to 4.  There is
     no priority mechanism.

     The swapon utility adds the specified swap devices to the system.	If the
     -a option is used, all swap devices in /etc/fstab will be added, unless
     their ``noauto'' option is also set.

     The swapoff utility removes the specified swap devices from the system.
     If the -a option is used, all swap devices in /etc/fstab will be removed,
     unless their ``noauto'' option is also set.  Note that swapoff will fail
     and refuse to remove a swap device if there is insufficient VM (memory +
     remaining swap devices) to run the system.  The swapoff utility must move
     swapped pages out of the device being removed which could lead to high
     system loads for a period of time, depending on how much data has been
     swapped out to that device.

     The swapctl utility exists primarily for those familiar with other BSDs
     and may be used to add, remove, or list swap devices.  Note that the -a
     option is used differently in swapctl and indicates that a specific list
     of devices should be added.  The -d option indicates that a specific list
     should be removed.  The -A and -U options to swapctl operate on all swap
     entries in /etc/fstab which do not have their ``noauto'' option set.

     Swap information can be generated using the swapinfo(8) utility, pstat
     -s, or swapctl -l.  The swapctl utility has the following options for
     listing swap:

     -h      Output values in megabytes.

     -k      Output values in kilobytes.

     -l      List the devices making up system swap.

     -s      Print a summary line for system swap.

	     The BLOCKSIZE environment variable is used if not specifically
	     overridden.  512 byte blocks are used by default.

DIAGNOSTICS    [Toc]    [Back]

     These utilities may fail for the reasons described in swapon(2).

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

      
      
     swapon(2), fstab(5), init(8), mdconfig(8), pstat(8), rc(8)

FILES    [Toc]    [Back]

     /dev/{ad,da}?s?b  standard paging devices
     /dev/md?	       memory disk devices
     /etc/fstab        ASCII file system description table

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     The swapon utility appeared in 4.0BSD.  The swapoff and swapctl utilities
     appeared in FreeBSD 5.1.


FreeBSD 5.2.1		       December 28, 2002		 FreeBSD 5.2.1
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