First of all Thanks and im sorry for the multiple emails i'v sent, i had a mail
client misconfiguration.
A couple of days ago I decided to reinstall my box and try 7.1 so i left
the partitions with no change, and i remmber that in the installation process i
skipped the swap formatting and selecting part.
manor g.
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, guy keren wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Manor G. wrote:
>
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hda1 * 1 751 3028000+ 83 Linux native
> > /dev/hda2 752 787 145152 82 Linux swap
>
> this shows you have a partition of type 'linux swap' defined in your hard
> drive's partition table.
>
> > but 'top' shows:
> >
> > 9:58pm up 1 day, 15:54, 5 users, load average: 2.00, 2.01, 2.02
> > 60 processes: 57 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> > CPU states: 21.3% user, 78.6% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
> > Mem: 127860K av, 121508K used, 6352K free, 56508K shrd, 21256K
> > buff
> > Swap: 0K av, 0K used, 0K free 41000K
> > cached
>
> this shows your swap partition is not used at all (the 0K free part).
>
> this is probably cause your system's startup scripts does not set this
> swap partition into active mode. this setting is usually done when you
> tell the install script to use this partition as swap space.
>
> in order to modify this manualy, you should:
>
> 1. format this partition, using the 'mkswap' command.
>
> 2. setting the swap partition into active state, using the 'swapon'
> command.
>
> 3. make sure yur swap partition appears in /etc/fstab . here is my entry:
>
> /dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> 4. make sure 'swapon' is used in your system's startup scripts, so swap
> space will be used after the next reboot.
>
> guy
>
> "For world domination - press 1,
> or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
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