Alejandro Castro Calvo wrote:
> Hello,
> I have installed LM8 a few days ago, and everything was
> alright until I tried to install StarOffice 5.2. Then, I
> received the message that I hadn't enought memory.
>
> I have 159.15 MB of RAM, and 264.04 MB of swap (on hda6),
> so I couldn't understand it. But then I went to Memory
> Information on the Control Center and I saw that my swap
> was 0.0% used.
>
> I have tried many things: swapoff and then swapon (when I
> swapped-off, I could see Swap Memory Not Available on the
> Control Center, so I thought this is not the problem);
> repartition hda and then mkswap; even mount swap on a file.
>
> Nothing has worked, and my swap is still 0.0% used, so I
> don't have enough memory to install StarOffice, and some
> games (like pingus or Xsoldier) runs so slowly.
>
> I have a Penthium MMX 233, and you can see my report file
> from HardDrake and my fstab as attachments.
>
> Thanks in advence,
> Alejandro
/dev/hdb5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda5 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda /mnt/disk vfat user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 none swap exec,dev,suid,rw 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
Alejandro....try the above changes in the swap file line in
your /etc/fstab file.
--
Alan
