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

[Brad Bell]

I am doing algorithmic differentiation with very large tapes and my jobs sometimes run out of memory.

On 3/23/22 12:51, Richard Shaw wrote:
> 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