[Users] Difference between swap and swappages?

[Kirill Kolyshkin]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 at 10:42, Arjit Chaudhary <arjit.c at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Is there any difference between setting vSwap on the OpenVZ 7 based
> virtual machine?
>
> vzctl set $VMID --ram $RAM --swap $SWAP --save
>
> vs
>
> vzctl set $VMID --ram $RAM --swappages $SWAP --save
>
>
> does --swap end up using real swap on the host-node
>
> and
>
>  --swappages use the RAM as swap (ie, vswap) ?
>
>
> or are both the same ?
>

Please take a look at vzctl man page, it's all described in there. In
short, you should use --swap;
--swappages is working but obsolete.
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