On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:11:00 -0600 Terry Tremaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority
> Hello > > I enclose a copy of my previous question to the group. I upgraded to > kernel 2.4.18-8.2 from 2.4.8-34.1. I am running mdk 8.1 and upgrade > everything as updates come out. With the new kernel swap just does not > get used. I cannot run the gui because memory requirements will use up > my physical memory. I must reboot every few hours even as things are. > I cannot go back to the old kernel without incurring some difficulty > because I upgraded iptables at the same time. > > TT > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Terry Tremaine > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 7:39 PM > Subject: [expert] poor swap activation with kernel 2.4.18-8.2 Terry Try this and see if it helps.... at the command line as root type swapon -s This will tell you if swap even got initialized at boot. Your output should look something like this Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/hda5 partition 248968 0 -1 If it isn't running it will look like this: Filename Type Size Used Priority Then if it isn't on do a swapon /dev/hdaX where X is your swap partition. It's supposed to read your fstab and initialize all partitions in it marked as "swap" If you don't have a line like this. /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Then you'll need it to make swap start at boot. Otherwise... I'm out of ideas. James
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