[ILUG] swap

[Niall O Broin]

On 29 Apr 2005, at 12:03, pat.oleary at iol.ie wrote:

>            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.

What happens when you do   swapon /dev/hda1   ?


Niall