Hello All, How to check whether your system swap is ON or not.
#free -m will show the swap details but is it ON if it's shown through output of this command. Take Care & Always SMILE..... Yogesh B. Malwankar --- On Wed, 24/12/08, suryabhan yadav <[email protected]> wrote: From: suryabhan yadav <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LinuxVadaPav] swap is not used by linux To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 24 December, 2008, 3:24 PM Hi, I am using fedora core 6 with kernel 2.6.22.14-72. fc6. and I am using Apache, mysql, php applications. when it reboots swap gets disabled and i have to manually on it. fstab entry is #LABEL=SWAP- sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 regards, suryabhan ____________ _________ _________ __ From: mubeen nakade <mubeennakade83@ yahoo.co. in> To: linuxvadapav@ yahoogroups. com Sent: Tuesday, 23 December, 2008 8:21:51 PM Subject: Re: [LinuxVadaPav] swap is not used by linux Hi, Your swap is already ON as it is showing in # free, you dont need to ON the swap again or create swap with mkswap command. Can you tell which Linux you are using and the Kernel version?? Application used? Mubeen. --- On Tue, 23/12/08, Viket Trivedi <viket.trivedi@ gmail.com> wrote: From: Viket Trivedi <viket.trivedi@ gmail.com> Subject: Re: [LinuxVadaPav] swap is not used by linux To: linuxvadapav@ yahoogroups. com Date: Tuesday, 23 December, 2008, 4:34 PM On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Viket Trivedi <viket.trivedi@ gmail.com>wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:30 PM, suryabhan yadav < > suryabhan_linux@ yahoo.co. in> wrote: > >> Dear Admin, >> >> In my server I have 1 gb ram 2 gb swap, but swap is not used. When ram >> utilisation is more than 1gb system reboots. >> Ram uses always shows 0. How to enable the swap. plz reply me.... >> I used # swapon /dev/sda2 to on the swap. >> >> How to enable the swap. >> >> OUTPUTS:- >> >> [r...@idea ~]# free -m >> total used free shared buffers cached >> Mem: 1010 666 344 0 73 342 >> -/+ buffers/cache: 251 759 >> Swap: 2000 0 2000 >> >> [r...@idea ~]# swapon -s >> Filename Type Size Used Priority >> /dev/sda2 partition 2048276 0 -1 >> >> thanx, >> suryabhan... >> >> Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to >> http://messenger. yahoo.com/ invite/ >> >> >> > > > Hi suryabhan, > > To stop your system from rebooting due to memory issue, first thing is you > create a pagefile using mkswap.. see if it stops your rebooting. > > -- > > Regards, Viket > Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter. com/viket > Once this stops rebooting your system, then do the following. mkswap /dev/'swap partition' swapon -vagedit /etc/fstab UUID='your correct swap UUID' none swap sw 0 0 replace texts in single quote with actuals. when you edit your /etc/fstab file make sure that your swap partition has the new UUID. something sort of that see if that could help -- Regards, Viket Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter. com/viket [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger. yahoo..com/ invite/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Connect with friends all over the world. Get Yahoo! India Messenger at http://in.messenger .yahoo.com/ ?wm=n/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
