[ILUG] swap

[Pat]

On Friday 29 April 2005 11:43, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> 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
>
> ?
My /etc/fstab entry for the swap partition is  

/dev/hda1            swap                 swap       pri=42                0 0

the pri=42 has something to do with priority for the swap partition.



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