Thanks! I was indeed operating with no swap partition. I'm suprised I
hadn't noticed it before. It must be because I upgraded the amount of ram at
the same time as I did the installation. I'll be curious to see how much
faster it opperates under high memory load now.
Unfortunately, I'm still getting the error message and having trouble
logging in, so that must be an unrelated problem.
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Ludovicus L wrote:
> Peter-
>
> You may be having the same probelm I had when I first
> installed 2.3. There is a bug in the install process
> which doesn't activate the swap.
>
> The fix according to Caldera:
>
>
>http://support.calderasystems.com/caldera?solution&11-990920-0001&130-937854600&14-11&2715-0&15-2&2716-0&57-faq&58-&25-6
>
> COL 2.3 seems slow or sluggish (REF#990920-0001)
>
>
> Description:
>
> I have just installed a 2.3 system it's seems slower
> than a 2.2 system I installed on a similar box. (It
> has the same processor and an equal amount of memory.)
>
>
> Solution:
>
> We have identified a problem with lizard. While it
> creates the swap partition, on some machines it does
> not set up the system to use the swap partition
> correctly. In order to work around the problem you
> need to modify your /etc/fstab file.
>
> To verify your system has this problem run "free". The
> output will look simular to the following:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 63160 61388 1772 18808 12560 28748
> -/+ buffers/cache: 20080 43080
> Swap: 0 0 0
>
> >From this we can see that there is no swap allocated.
>
>
> To resove the problem first identify what partition is
> allocated as your swap partition. To do this login as
> root and run the following command:
>
> fdisk -l
>
> (note: in the above command the switch is the letter l
> as in list.)
>
> The output should be something simular to this:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 524 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 26 208813+ 6 FAT16
> /dev/hda2 27 276 2008125 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 277 292 128520 82 Linux swap
>
> The swap partition is ID 82 and labeled "Linux swap".
> In this case it is device hda3.
>
> Now using vi, or your perfered editor, edit /etc/fstab
> and add the following line as the second line.
> (Usually the root partiton mount statement is first.):
>
> /dev/[swap_part] swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> Replacing [swap_part] with the divice that matches
> your swap partition.
>
> The edited file should look something like this:
>
> /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> /proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
>
> After saving you new fstab file you can enable the
> swap partition with the follow command:
>
> swapon /dev/[swap_part]
>
> Replacing [swap_part] with the divice that matches
> your swap partition.
>
> Now you can run "free" and see that the swap space is
> available for use.
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 63160 61548 1612 18808 12644 28748
> -/+ buffers/cache: 20156 43004
> Swap: 128516 0 128516
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Peter Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm running Caldera Openlinux 2.3. When I try to
> > log into my account, the
> > system simply hangs with the logo screen. If I hit
> > ctrl-alt-backspace, I can
> > get back to the login window, then when I log in
> > again, I can get in.
> >
> > This may be related. During bootup, I get the
> > following error message.
> >
> > rpc.statd forgot to set AF_INET in udp sendmsg. Fix
> > it!
> > neighbor table overflow
> >
> > This message also shows up each I log out or
> > shutdown KDE, either normally
> > or with Cntl-alt-BS. Are they related? How would I
> > go about fixing this?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
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