On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, Dan wrote:
> The program i was trying to run were karchiver and star office. I checked to see
> what was running with (ps aux) and apparently there was a whole lot of things
> running. Most of which I have no idea what they are for. I also check to see how
> full the file system is, it was about 70 percent. After doing these two things I
> remembered that when i installed caldera I choose workstation and server packages,
> I think this may be why there where so many services running. I reinstalled
> caldera with just the home workstation package (to free up some space) and things
> are running a little faster, not much. I then ran free to see what it showed:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 63104 60272 2832 34276 19368 10524
> -/+ buffers/cache: 30380 32724
> Swap: 0 0 0
>
> If i am reading this right my swap file is not working, right. According to
> Partition Magic there is a swap file. Any suggestions on how to fix this.
Partition magic will not say its a swap file, it will say its a swap
partition.
Someone has told you about a problem in caldera with starting swap.
I have a cladera install here but its not running, as far as i can
see there is a call to start swapon in /etc/rc.d/rc.boot that should
be ok, the problem seems to be that there is no entry added into
/etc/fstab for swap.
I would do the following.
edit /etc/fstab
add a line something like the following, substitute /dev/hdaX for
your partition number Eg. /dev/hda1
/dev/hdaX swap swap defaults 0 0
save the file
type
swapon -a
free should now show numbers not zero's.
If that still fails the need to use
mkswap /dev/hdaX
might be nessasary, after that then type
swapon -a
to activate the swap partiton.
> If this is not enough info please email me for more.
That was your problem, i hope that is enough infomation to help you
solve it.
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Regards Richard
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