My Oracle Support Banner

Exalogic: How to enable swap if we get an error 'swapon: /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01: read swap header failed: Invalid argument' ? (Doc ID 2675194.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software - Version 2.0.6.4.0 to 2.0.6.4.200114
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

Under certain circumstance such as the following, you may be performing swap-off and swap-on

a. Swap is on and system is under memory pressure and swap is unused
b. Swap shows 0 and reluctant to clear though we have system RAM
c. Bloated SWAP

When doing swapon, you may see the error shown below, on some occasions:

 

Solution

To view full details, sign in with your My Oracle Support account.

Don't have a My Oracle Support account? Click to get started!


In this Document
Goal
Solution
References


My Oracle Support provides customers with access to over a million knowledge articles and a vibrant support community of peers and Oracle experts.