Hi all-
I had the same problem with OpenLinux 2.3. It is a bug
in the Lizard installer that dosen't activate the
swap.
The fix is in their support pages:
http://support.calderasystems.com/caldera?solution&11-990920-0001&130-937854600&14-11&2715-0&15-2&2716-0&57-faq&58-&25-6
Ricardo
--- Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 04:42 AM 2/9/00 -0600, Dan wrote [in part]:
> >... 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.
>
> 1. To fix swap, follw these three steps:
>
> check /etc/fstab to find out which partition
> is swap (actually,
> also to make sure you have one)
> from the command line, as root, enter
> "mkswap /dev/swapspace"
> replacing "swapspace" with the
> partition name you found
> in the first step
> from the command line, as root, enter
> "swapon"
>
> This is the quick-and-dirty solution to make sure
> there isn't an actual
> problem with swap. The long-run solution is to
> include the "swapon" command
> in an appropriate initialization script, but I don't
> know Caldera well
> enough to tell you the exact place ... this part
> tends to vary from one
> distribution to another.
>
> 2. "free" still says you are using 30 mB of memory
> (get this from the "used"
> entry on the second line, not the first). That still
> seems like a lot ...
> though an elaborate X setup might account for it ...
> especially if I am
> guessing right that you re running KDE. You still
> want to look at "ps aux"
> and see what is running that you don't need.
>
> 3. Last time, I mentioned Netscape as an app that
> started slowly on Linux. I
> don't have firsthand experience with StarOffice, but
> by repute it is another
> such program. I'm not familiar with karchiver.
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me
> the odds!"---
> Ray Olszewski
> -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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