With .5G of Disk I doubt is you will see much swap activity. The only time I
have seen any is with a faulty configuration that just kept eating memory space
until it used all Memory, Swap-space and crashed. One way to test if it is
working is lie about the amount of memory you have.
IE. on boot up tell lilo you have a smaller memory size. For example
assuming your image name is linux at the lilo prompt type
lilo: linux mem=64M
Then the computer will only use 64 Meg of memory. If you then
compile a kernel with
time make -j "MAKE= make -j4" bzImage
you should spawn enough processes to cause swapping and the time command will
report how many swaps occured.
Hubert Bahr
Robert M. Hyatt wrote:
> do you have a "swapon" command in your init startup script? Or do
> you have your swap partition in your /etc/fstab?
>
> Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences
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>
> On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Jim Peters wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have many dual pentium pro machines running Linux 2.0.x with SMP
> > support enabled and cannot get any of them to use swap space. A sample
> > machine configuration follows:
> >
> > Dual Intel Pentium Pro 200's
> > 512M
> > Adaptec 2940UW
> > Matrox Video (I believe, nothing fancy..could be hardware conflict?)
> > 2 Intel Etherexpress 100 network cards
> > Linux 2.0.33
> >
> > I just signed on to this list and I've been going through the archives for
> > the last few hours looking for hints. Maybe somebody can give me more
> > than a hint, these are production machines (we're trying to get rid of SCO
> > for this) and really need to be able to swap ASAP. Just tell me what to
> > do and I'll do it :)
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Jim Peters
> >
