Actually, I did read man swapon. I then tried swapoff; swapon (with the
appropriate but already forgotten parameters). No change.
One thing I might try this weekend is upgrading to 2.0.37. I have no
idea if it's a kernel thing, though...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Have a read of man swapon. /proc/swaps was invented by the 2.1.x
> kernels, and I don't think it made it back to the 2.0.x. I don't have
> it with 2.0.36. But I agree _something_ doesn't seem right with swap.
>
> Lawson
> >< Microsoft free environment
>
> This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
>
> On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, David Rysdam wrote:
>
> > Martin Rogers wrote:
> >
> > > Just my .02. I also run RedHat (5.2), and was getting weirdness when
> memory
> > > usage got near peak ('ls' and most other simple commands returning
> > > "segmentation fault"...). 'free' also returned 0 for 'used'
> swap...what I had
> > > to do, and what the install process hadn't done, is add an
> appropriate line to
> > > the fstab file to enable the mounting of my swap partition during
> bootup.
> > >
> >
> > Well THIS is interesting. Further investigation reveals that my swap
> > partition is in /etc/fstab and rc.sysinit does a swapon -a, BUT swapon
> > -s returns "/proc/swaps: No such file or directory".
> >
> > Does this ring any bells with anyone.
> >
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