> Hi > > I've managed without a swap partition until now, but I'm trying to > build open office and the build is failing at the last minute due to > lack of memory. So now I've made a swap partition of 2 gig and run > mkswap. I've also amended the fstab. All seems fine until I run swapon > -a which returns "Function not implemented". > > I've tried making a swap file rather than a partition but I get the same > output. If I reboot to run the script at boot-time I can see the same > output. I've tried various sizes of swap -- no difference. Could it be > a udev problem? I upgraded to udev-124 some time ago but everything > else works fine. Running "free -m" shows swap but with all zeros, of > course. Maybe "swapon" is corrupted -- I just don't know. I have no > /proc/swaps file. When is this generated? I was wondering whether swap > has to be enabled in the kernel but I can find no reference to it in the > kernel .config. > > I'd be really grateful for some help as I'm right at the final stage of > my BLFS build. > > Richard
Hello, this really does sound like it isn't enabled in your kernel. The option is CONFIG_SWAP, or under the name "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)". Hope I could help. Lauri -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
