Here is a free report for everyone BTW, you'll enjoy this. I admit it's a
weird situation. I'm trying newer kernels as I write this.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 257176 238112 19064 69184 91992 69844
-/+ buffers/cache: 76276 180900
Swap: 130748 0 130748
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 515848 482776 33072 76616 176136 210868
-/+ buffers/cache: 95772 420076
Swap: 261496 0 261496
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Dave J. Andruczyk wrote:
> > 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:
> >
> > Dual Intel Pentium Pro 200's
> > 512M
> > Adaptec 2940UW
> > Matrox Video (I believe, nothing fancy..could be hardware conflict?)
> > 2 Intel Etherexpress 100 network cards
> > Linux 2.0.33
>
> check your fstab file (in /etc) for a line like:
> /dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> run fdisk, or cfdisk, and make sure there is a partition tagged as
> "linux swap" (code 82):
>
> fdisk output:
> /dev/sda2 21 21 32 96390 82 Linux swap
>
> if you had to creat the swap partition you must write it to disk, and then
> reboot, (just to be safe).
>
> run "mkswap /dev/sda2" (replace the device with whatever partition/device
> you have your swap on.)
>
> run swapon -a in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit (redhat 5.x) or in one ofthe first
> running init scripts for slackware, or whatever distrib you have..
>
>
> after you reboot ,and made sure "swapon -a" ran, run "free" and you should
> see:
> [dave@bartender 80's]$ free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 63092 62040 1052 47092 1348 17176
> -/+ buffers/cache: 43516 19576
> Swap: 96384 4764 91620
>
> Notice the last line..
>
>
> Good luck..
>
> Dave J. Andruczyk
> Linux Systems Admin
> Buffalo State College
>
>
>
