Adding Temporary Swap Space in HP-UX

If you want to add temporary swap space then you can create a directory which should have the required space and then create the additional swap on that as follows:

#swapinfo -tam

#mkdir //tempswap1

#chmod 777 /  /tempswap1

#swapon -p2 -l 1000M /  /tempswap1

(-p2 priority 2)

#swapinfo –tam

* 1000M is 1000 MB swap space which will be created

* tempswap1 is just an example, you can give any name you want but it will be good if you can identify that it is a swap space just by looking at the name of the directory

* 777 is the permission setting for the directory created