Sorry, I should've explained myself better..but it was 1am and I had been
searching texts for anything that might help ;) Yes, I can get the
machine to swap perfectly with a Uniprocessor kernel, but with an SMP
kernel it's a no-go. The swap space is there, is setup properly, and I'm
doubting there's any special setup for SMP machines. This *IS* a weird
problem, but it's a weird problem I've had with 12 of these machines. The
motherboard is a supermicro P6DNF 440FX chipset I believe (off the top of
my head). Should I try a 2.1.x kernel? I'd rather not for these
production machines but if that's what it takes for now, someone point me
to a 2.1.x release they trust? :)
J
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Eric Michael Monsler wrote:
> 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
>
>
