Jim Peters wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have many dual pentium pro machines running Linux 2.0.x with SMP
> support enabled and cannot get any of them to use swap space. A sample
> machine configuration follows:
>
(snip)
> TIA,
>
> Jim Peters
Jim,
First unanswered question is: Did you try a Uniprocessor kernel on the
same machines, and get swapping when required?
I'll assume no, (since if yes I have no idea!!) and try to help...
I assume that you created a partition for swap space, and that you
specified the filesystem type as Linux swap?
Not much to really go on, here, but does 'top' list non-zero swap space
available? A friend had a troublesome RH install (older SCSI card0),
and somehow his swap partition didn't end up in his /etc/fstab. You
might check that.
Another test would be to use dd and then mkswap to create a swap file,
and then swapon to add that swap space. Directions are under 'man
mkswap'. If those two result in no errors and the space (or extra
space) appears as available swap in top, then do whatever you do that
you think would result in swapping, and see if it works.
BTW, what are you doing that ought to cause swapping?
Eric Monsler
Linux guru-wannabee
