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To: paule <paule@ilu.vu>
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Subject: Re: Swap issue
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paule wrote:

>Having just upgraded slackware8.0 (2.2 kernel)
>to using 2.5.2, (2.5.3 patch install failed looking for malloc.h)
>Im unable to use swap, despite it showing a success.
>
># dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap/swapfile bs=1024 count=131072
>13107+0 records in
>13107+0 records out
># mkswap -c /swap/swapfile
>Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 13414400 bytes
>
I'd do a sync before turning swap on  on a file if I were you.

># swapon /swap/swapfile
>swapon: /swap/swapfile: Success
># cat /proc/meminfo
>MemTotal:        61720 kB
>MemFree:          1896 kB
>MemShared:           0 kB
>Buffers:          8300 kB
>Cached:          30712 kB
>SwapCached:          0 kB
>Active:          25316 kB
>Inactive:        19688 kB
>HighTotal:           0 kB
>HighFree:            0 kB
>LowTotal:        61720 kB
>LowFree:          1896 kB
>SwapTotal:           0 kB
>SwapFree:            0 kB
>
>I've tried various kernel configurations, and it just doesn't
>want to work.
>
>(It was however working under 2.2.x)
>
>Any ideas?
>
>TIA,
>--
>Paul Edwards
>paule@ilu.vu
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