<html><head></head><body><div>Oh Sh....</div><div>Swap files are not allowed on btrfs</div><div><br></div><div>manpages say: </div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>swapon</b> may not work correctly when using a swap file with some versions of <b>btrfs</b>. This is due to btrfs being a copy-on-write filesystem: the file location may not be static and corruption can result. Btrfs actively disallows the use of swap files on its filesystems by refusing to map the file.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So I have to generate a swap partition on a micro-SD card. I think to have read this was discouraged because wear leveling was then inefficient.</div><div><br></div><div>I would put a remark in our hardware section to avoid devices with <1 GB RAM.</div><div>I will do this after I am sure my issues come from running out of RAM.</div><div><br></div><div> Dietmar</div><div><br></div><div>Am Donnerstag, den 31.01.2019, 09:32 +0100 schrieb permondes - sagen:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Thanks for the hint, but it runs into bug #913481.</div><div>I will do it according to the debian wiki > swap</div><div><br></div><div>Nevertheless, it would be better to find the cause of the freezes by investigating some log files.</div><div>Currently I just see the authentication errors in coqueliqot and actually also in mediawiki - but both work.</div><div><br></div><div> Dietmar</div><div><br></div><div>Am Mittwoch, den 30.01.2019, 23:15 +0100 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>[Permondes - Sagen]
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I am considering to set up a SWAP-file on FBx in order to avoid the
risk of running out of RAM. Will this interfere with the FBx
ecosystem?
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I doubt it, but can not say for sure. Are you aware of the
dphys-swapfile package? I suspect just installing it might do what you
want.
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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