In message <A9DE2BAF233E444FA9C5E77A5825A01E86505F at ydmail.sbell.com.cn> you wrote: > > But I found that the "dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1M > count=62" is not easy to executed:
This command alone should just work fine. > The system is often no response after execute this command. On several > time, it add swap successfully. > But when I start to compile package. The system then no response !! >From your subject and this description I understand that you then try to use this file as swapfile over NFS, and this causes problems. There is a known problem with swap over NFS, at least for 2.4 kernels. > How to slove the problem? Is the reason of my hard disk? I think not, RTFM. A solution is described in detail at http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/SwappingOverNFS Note that this is terribly slow, though - but sometimes it's better to have a slow and working system than one which is fast and out of memory. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de You can't evaluate a man by logic alone. -- McCoy, "I, Mudd", stardate 4513.3
