[ILUG] swap

[Pat]

On Friday 29 April 2005 12:28, Niall O Broin wrote:
> 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
 Well the machine didn't complain when i did swapon /dev/hda1, so i assumed 
all was ok & the swap partition showed up when i ran the free command, but no 
swap is being used 

Pat

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