On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 01:09:23PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I work with an open source project. We have a VM but it is low-end. > The machine suffers OOM kills. We don't have access to /etc/fstab. > Everything is an upsell with the VPS provider. > > I'm trying to setup a swapfile during startup using Systemd but: > > # swapon /swapfile > swapon: /swapfile: swapon failed: Operation not permitted > > This may be useful: > > # command -v swapon > /sbin/swapon > # file /sbin/swapo > swapoff swapon > # file /sbin/swapon > /sbin/swapon: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), > dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, > BuildID[sha1]=a4891bc4dcfc533c61d76aa3e69870ab35d90c89, stripped > > My question is, is there a way to sidestep the restriction? Is it > possible to ask the kernel to use the swapfile without using the > command? You can try running for more details: # strace swapon /swapfile but the swap functionality is probably disabled in the kernel itself. -- Valentin _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
