I ran up such a load that it finally did swap, sorry for wasting
everyone's time. It was just strange to me that the buffers could take so
much. End of thread, back to our regularly scheduled lives...
J
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Hubert Bahr wrote:
> 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
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alabama at Birmingham
> > (205) 934-2213 115A Campbell Hall, UAB Station
> > (205) 934-5473 FAX Birmingham, AL 35294-1170
> >
> > 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
> > >
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