[ILUG] swap

[Conor Wynne]

> 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.

Well, you do not seem to be using any swap, its possibly not configured?
fdisk -l
See whats available for swap usage
Assuming /dev/hda1 is your swap partition, then you can do:

mkswap /dev/hda1
followed by
swapon -a

If its still de-activated, then you verify you have the correct swap entry
in /etc/fstab

>
> Thanks
>
> pat
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regards
Conor.