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Dike
Sent: Saturday, 25 November 2006 4:03 PM
To: Gerhard
Cc: User-Mode-Linux-User
Subject: Re: [uml-user] UML swap space
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 11:28:15AM +1100, Gerhard wrote:
> I run UMLS using debian 2.6.8 host kernel (debian packaged SKAS patch
> applied) and a 2.4.27. kernel ( from kernels - dot - org) with base and
bs1
> patches applied. The file system I used is an upgrade Debian 3.0 r2 ext2
> file system.
An aside - is it possible to use something newer?
> I also added a mount entry into the UML's /ect/fstab file.
> I then restarted the UML and hey presto It seems I have a swap partition
> within the UML.
>
> However.....
> How do I verify that it is infact being used. It seems that if I make the
> initially memory for the UML small, say 30Mbytes, (which I accidentally
> did - see recent post, Stack Over Flows) the UML crashes. It seems that
the
> UML is not using the 300+M swap space at all and simply falls over.
run 'free' - it should show some swap space.
Hi
Thanks for your reply.
OK will try a force the UML to use swap space.
I just wante to know why the UML stack oveflow when a small amount of memroy
is used.
I think the 29M memory was just too small to handle larger apps - such as
installing vim or ssh via apt-get.
To anwer your 'aside'
I use these kernelts for as production servers running web servers, samba,
ldap etc.
I use the Debian stable part of the distribution for stablitily reasons and
found the 2.4.27. guest kernel
to be one the most stable for these systems.
I have not yet tested newer host or guest kernels I still very new to UMLS
(A few months ago I had not known agout UMLS)
Which would you suggest?
Thanks
Gerhard
> Am I missing something while setting up the swap space?
> Is there a way of verifying that it eve works?
It works - I've had a UML ~500M into swap for the last 5 days.
Jeff
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