Swap Space Not Being Used?

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Fri Sep 22 14:07:37 UTC 2006


T. Horsnell wrote:
> Isnt this indicating that you need to do a 'mkswap /dev/hda6'
> to set up your swap area properly?
>
> Terry.
>
>   
>>> A few days ago (right before this problem started), I installed
>>> acpitool
>>> and I tried to do a suspend (which didn't work). I think that screwed
>>> something up!
>>>
>>> Rick 
>>>       
IIRC, I have seen threads that have mentioned the same problem, that 
suspend to disk borked the swap file and it had to be recreated.


>> Well clearly swap is not on. But the command to turn it on is: 
>> swapon -a -e
>> which should be run by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit on boot
>>
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Mark Haney
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