Re: Swapon not working
Hello, this really does sound like it isn't enabled in your kernel. The option is CONFIG_SWAP, or under the name Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap). zgrep CONFIG_SWAP /proc/config.gz ( or substitute grep and your .config if you didn't create /proc/config.gz ) Yeah, sorry for the noise. Not sure what I was doing with grep -- my only excuse is that it was Friday evening and I was tired. Kernel is now re-configured and re-built and all is OK. Thanks Lauri and Ken. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Swapon not working
Hi I've managed without a swap partition until now, but I'm trying to build open office and the build is failing at the last minute due to lack of memory. So now I've made a swap partition of 2 gig and run mkswap. I've also amended the fstab. All seems fine until I run swapon -a which returns Function not implemented. I've tried making a swap file rather than a partition but I get the same output. If I reboot to run the script at boot-time I can see the same output. I've tried various sizes of swap -- no difference. Could it be a udev problem? I upgraded to udev-124 some time ago but everything else works fine. Running free -m shows swap but with all zeros, of course. Maybe swapon is corrupted -- I just don't know. I have no /proc/swaps file. When is this generated? I was wondering whether swap has to be enabled in the kernel but I can find no reference to it in the kernel .config. I'd be really grateful for some help as I'm right at the final stage of my BLFS build. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Swapon not working
Hi I've managed without a swap partition until now, but I'm trying to build open office and the build is failing at the last minute due to lack of memory. So now I've made a swap partition of 2 gig and run mkswap. I've also amended the fstab. All seems fine until I run swapon -a which returns Function not implemented. I've tried making a swap file rather than a partition but I get the same output. If I reboot to run the script at boot-time I can see the same output. I've tried various sizes of swap -- no difference. Could it be a udev problem? I upgraded to udev-124 some time ago but everything else works fine. Running free -m shows swap but with all zeros, of course. Maybe swapon is corrupted -- I just don't know. I have no /proc/swaps file. When is this generated? I was wondering whether swap has to be enabled in the kernel but I can find no reference to it in the kernel .config. I'd be really grateful for some help as I'm right at the final stage of my BLFS build. Richard Hello, this really does sound like it isn't enabled in your kernel. The option is CONFIG_SWAP, or under the name Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap). Hope I could help. Lauri -- ___ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Swapon not working
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 07:12:44PM +, Richard Melville wrote: Hi I've managed without a swap partition until now, but I'm trying to build open office and the build is failing at the last minute due to lack of memory. So now I've made a swap partition of 2 gig and run mkswap. I've also amended the fstab. All seems fine until I run swapon -a which returns Function not implemented. I've tried making a swap file rather than a partition but I get the same output. If I reboot to run the script at boot-time I can see the same output. I've tried various sizes of swap -- no difference. Could it be a udev problem? I upgraded to udev-124 some time ago but everything else works fine. Running free -m shows swap but with all zeros, of course. Maybe swapon is corrupted -- I just don't know. I have no /proc/swaps file. When is this generated? I was wondering whether swap has to be enabled in the kernel but I can find no reference to it in the kernel .config. I'd be really grateful for some help as I'm right at the final stage of my BLFS build. Richard zgrep CONFIG_SWAP /proc/config.gz ( or substitute grep and your .config if you didn't create /proc/config.gz ) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
