Random lock ups on 1074 kernel
Phil Schaffner
P.R.Schaffner at IEEE.org
Tue Jan 11 01:19:12 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 23:58 +0000, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I've had problems with the last few FC4 kernels. The problem turned out
> > to be that I was running out of swap space during depmod. Adding an
> > extra GB of swap and reinstalling the kernel solved the problem.
>
> How do I do that? parted seemed to think /dev/hda3 was mounted, umount
> didn't.
Not sure what that means (swap partitions don't show up as mounted), but
you can add a swapfile. From "man mkswap"
# dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=65536
Put it on a partition where you have room (/var in example below) and
adjust "count=" for desired swapfile size.
Then
# mkswap /var/cache/swapfile
Add to /etc/fstab
/var/cache/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0
and
# swapon -a
Do "free" before/after to verify effectiveness.
Phil
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