Used swap 0MB of 0MB - why?

[Paul Howarth]

Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> I've recently had a few applications get killed off by full memory. So I 
> looked at System Monitor and it says:
> Used Memory      218MB of 502MB
> Used swap            0MB of 0MB
> 
> Somethings wrong right? I've checked fstab and it looks normal ( 
> /dev/hda6   swap swap defaults 0 0 ) but I've obviously done something 
> wrong if my system can't even see my swap partition.

That fstab entry looks just like mine, which seems OK:

# fgrep swap /etc/fstab
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
# swapon -s
Filename         Type            Size    Used    Priority
/dev/hda6        partition       514040  17520   -1

Paul.