Re: Fedora 35 swapon: /swapfile: swapon failed: Invalid argument

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 2:04 PM Brad Bell  wrote:
> The instructions below worked for me and the created extra swap space (not
> as much as desired but I
> can fix that)
>
> ~>swapon -s
> Filename                Type        Size        Used    Priority
> /dev/zram0              partition   8388604     390584100
> /swapfile               file        65532       0       -2
>
> What do you mean by this may not be necessary. Is there a better way to
> increase the swap space ?

To rephrase the question, how do you know you need additional swap? Are you
having processes killed by OOM?

Thanks,
Richard