its possible to start w/o a swap. depends how much ram you have though .. i never build linux boxes with less then 64 or 128MB in those cases swap isn't that important so its easy to turn off..
it may be bad ram..there are a few memory testers out there for linux..try em out. nate On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Werner Reisberger wrote: werner >On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 11:31:30AM -0800, aphro wrote: werner >> try running your mahcine w/o a swap partition setup to see if the problem werner >> persists, (its just a shot in the dark..) you may have bad sectors on the werner >> drive where the swap partition resides. werner > werner >Is it possible to start linux w/o a swap partition? I checked the drive werner >(UW-SCSI) with the diagnostic program of the Adaptec-Controller and didn't werner >found any bad blocks. werner > werner >I think it's rather a problem with the RAM. I just checked a core after werner >a program failed with seg fault. The message found ("Cannot access memory werner >in 0xa346e32") points to a RAM problem. I think I really have to exchange my werner >RAM. werner > werner > Werner werner > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 9:31pm up 164 days, 9:40, 1 user, load average: 1.22, 1.14, 1.05