for those interested how swap got disabled... it was probably during an upgrade to 8.04 (Ubuntu).
I enabled the swap partition with SWAPON command, but discovered that upon reboot it got disabled again... I found out the problem (UUIDs for sda2 in /etc/fstab were wrong...): :~$ cat /etc/fstab proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/sda1 -- converted during upgrade to edgy UUID=9c65b16b-2082-4121-9c78-d5fc6e407ade / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /dev/sda2 -- converted during upgrade to edgy UUID=ff26b2f9-e08c-42d8-97fa-9a5e37f9a711 none swap sw 0 0 The correct UUID: :~$ cat /etc/blkid.tab <device DEVNO="0x0801" TIME="1222383637" UUID="c50741b8-7929-4310-84ef-d581135c1387" TYPE="ext3">/dev/sda1</device> <device DEVNO="0x0802" TIME="1222383637" TYPE="swap" UUID="49a04c1e-c41e-4d24-9ea1-b23014136b5b">/dev/sda2</device> So I updated the UUID in fstab and the swap partition settings survive the reboot now! david D. Krmpotic wrote: > in the meantime I did enable it... no idea how it got disabled... > > but still... do you think it's ok that so little memory is left on boot > and reindexing would have to start swapping? > > > > Robby Russell wrote: >> Yeah, without any swap... you're going to have some problems. >> Surprised that you don't have any enabled by default. (at least 2x the >> amount of RAM to start... ) >> >> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Roberto R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>>> else... but still... swapping is just as bad ... and 512MB should be >>>> -/+ buffers/cache: 413 97 >>>> > some swap space? >>>> >> >>> >> -- >> Robby Russell >> Chief Evangelist, Partner >> >> PLANET ARGON, LLC >> design // development // hosting >> >> http://www.planetargon.com/ >> http://www.robbyonrails.com/ >> aim: planetargon >> >> +1 503 445 2457 >> +1 877 55 ARGON [toll free] >> +1 815 642 4068 [fax] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
