Re: [Swarm-Support] Circumventing memory leaks via swap space

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Steve Railsback wrote:
> 1. Apparently you cannot just move space on your hard disk from the main 
> Linux partition to your existing swap partition. Instead, you must 
> reduce the size of the main partition to free some space, and then turn 
> that freed space into a new, second, swap partition.
>   
The procedure I described in the other e-mail involves no 
re-partitioning.  It involves what's called a loopback device, which can 
also be used to put whole filesystems in files.