how to decrease the Priority to 1 in place of 2 as described below?
swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
dev/cciss/c0d0p6 partition 8385888 0 -2
how to decrease the Priority to 1 in place of 2 as described below?
swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
dev/cciss/c0d0p6 partition 8385888 0 -2
You can use -p
on swapon
, as said in the man
page.
-p, --priority priority
Specify the priority of the swap device. priority is a value between 0 and 32767. Higher numbers indicate higher prior‐
ity. See swapon(2) for a full description of swap priorities. Add pri=value to the option field of /etc/fstab for use
with swapon -a.
But you only have priority if you have more than one swap space. The first space gets -1, the second -2, and so on. It makes little sense to have multiple swap spaces at the same priority (unless you want to make a round-robin allocation of swap space), just make sure to put your faster space as the lowest priority.
The priority you are seeing is negative. If you do not specify a priority, the first swap device you add since boot has priority -1
. The second swap device you add since boot has priority -2
, and so on (see the enable_swap_info
function in the Linux kernel). So the priority being -2
only means this is the second time since you booted that server that you added a swap device without explicitly specifying a priority. If you specified a priority, it would be non-negative.
The only thing this priority affects is the order in which swap devices are used (higher priority devices are searched first). If you only have one swap device, it does not make any difference.