Re: [newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0

2005-01-20 Thread Lukas Ruzicka
J. David Boyd napsal(a): My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using 256M memory. When I set up the system, I went with the double your memory for swap space rule. Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total of 768M. How do I double the memory size for swap

[newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0

2005-01-19 Thread J. David Boyd
My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using 256M memory. When I set up the system, I went with the double your memory for swap space rule. Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total of 768M. How do I double the memory size for swap space? Is there some

Re: [newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0

2005-01-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 21:16, J. David Boyd wrote: My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using 256M memory. When I set up the system, I went with the double your memory for swap space rule. Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total of 768M.

Re: [newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0

2005-01-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
J. David Boyd wrote: My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using 256M memory. When I set up the system, I went with the double your memory for swap space rule. Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total of 768M. How do I double the memory size for

Re: [newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0

2005-01-19 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 03:16 pm, J. David Boyd wrote: My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using 256M memory. When I set up the system, I went with the double your memory for swap space rule. Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total of 768M.

Re: [newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0

2005-01-19 Thread Erylon Hines
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 07:16 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: | On Wednesday 19 January 2005 03:16 pm, J. David Boyd wrote: | My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using | 256M memory. | | When I set up the system, I went with the double your memory for swap | space

[newbie] cleaning swap partition after suspend to disk failed

2004-04-02 Thread Stephanus Fengler
Hi folks, I tried the acpi feature (nor swsup) hibernation to disk. It look like everything went right down but resuming doesn't work. I read somwhere else, that it only works with less then 1GB RAM. Is that true? (That's probably the reason then, because I have got exactly 1GB). However, if I

Re: [newbie] cleaning swap partition after suspend to disk failed

2004-04-02 Thread Marc Resnick
Stephanus Fengler wrote: Hi folks, I tried the acpi feature (nor swsup) hibernation to disk. It look like everything went right down but resuming doesn't work. I read somwhere else, that it only works with less then 1GB RAM. Is that true? (That's probably the reason then, because I have got

Re: [newbie] cleaning swap partition after suspend to disk failed

2004-04-02 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 19:03, Stephanus Fengler wrote: Hi folks, I tried the acpi feature (nor swsup) hibernation to disk. It look like everything went right down but resuming doesn't work. I read somwhere else, that it only works with less then 1GB RAM. Is that true? (That's probably the

[newbie] Linux Swap Partition

2003-04-05 Thread Netsonic
Something Ive never actually looked at with regard to Linux. Is it possible to just not use a swap partition at all. The intended machine has 768 Mb Ram. Would this speed Linux up ?? Or am i better keeping the swap partition. Stevo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Linux Swap Partition

2003-04-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 10:04 am, Netsonic wrote: Something Ive never actually looked at with regard to Linux. Is it possible to just not use a swap partition at all. The intended machine has 768 Mb Ram. Would this speed Linux up ?? Or am i better keeping the swap partition. Stevo A

Re: [newbie] Linux Swap Partition

2003-04-05 Thread Netsonic
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 10:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Swap Partition On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 10:04 am, Netsonic wrote: Something Ive never actually looked at with regard to Linux

Re: [newbie] Linux Swap Partition

2003-04-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 19:04, Netsonic wrote: Something Ive never actually looked at with regard to Linux. Is it possible to just not use a swap partition at all. The intended machine has 768 Mb Ram. Would this speed Linux up ?? Or am i better keeping the swap partition. Stevo By

Re: [newbie] Linux Swap Partition

2003-04-05 Thread Terry Smith
If you have more than one drive, and run different distros on each (as I do on this machine) you can define two swap partitions, once on each drive. In the respective /etc/fstab files you can define the multiple swaps. Both distros can use them and, to the extent that swap is used, performance

RE: [newbie] missing swap partition?

2002-03-01 Thread Barran, Richard
It certainly looks like you are on the right track. Do you have an entry for a swap partition in your /etc/fstab? It should look something like this /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 You can use diskdrake to create a swap partition without having to reinstall BTW: Unless you like

[newbie] missing swap partition?

2002-02-28 Thread Barran, Richard
Hello, I've been having problems with my LM8.1 install, I *think* I've figured out what's gone wrong, but I'd like a second opinion. The problem: I can't use my PC for more than an hour or so. I'll be happily running multiple applications, when suddenly the HD will trash about like mad, and KDE

Re: [newbie] missing swap partition?

2002-02-28 Thread Derek Jennings
It certainly looks like you are on the right track. Do you have an entry for a swap partition in your /etc/fstab? It should look something like this /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 You can use diskdrake to create a swap partition without having to reinstall BTW: Unless you like getting disc

Re: [newbie] No swap partition? :(

2000-03-12 Thread flupke
-=qUeNCy95=- wrote: Recently changed from mandrake 6 - 7... Ive never had so many freaking problems in my life! Ive noticed my comp being quite a bit slower with all my apps running... I run kpm to see whats going on, and I dont even have a swap partition. It seems that the problem comes

[newbie] No swap partition? :(

2000-03-12 Thread -=qUeNCy95=-
Recently changed from mandrake 6 - 7... Ive never had so many freaking problems in my life! Ive noticed my comp being quite a bit slower with all my apps running... I run kpm to see whats going on, and I dont even have a swap partition. I thought mabye the installer didnt create it. So I go