[ILUG] swap

[Bryan O'Donoghue]

pat.oleary at iol.ie wrote:
> Hellllp....
>            my machine has started to crash a lot latel, after a bit of
> searching i noticed that both "free" & xosview show that it's not using any
> swap memory. I'm running SuSE 9.2 & set up a swap of 1Gb using YAST & later
> had a go at setting it up at the command line with "makeswap -c" 
> followed by "swapon /dev/hda1" but no joy. I have been doing a little
> tweeking lately using YAST but cant think what i could do to stop it using
> swap memory. Any ideas or suggestions would be very welcome.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> pat
> http://www.iol.ie


Is /dev/hda1 in /etc/fstab... like this

/dev/hda1	swap	swap	defaults	0 0

?