The Wednesday 2005-03-30 at 23:43 +0100, Jonathan Brooks wrote:
I have a PC with 2 Intel Xeons and SuSE 9.1 installed, I use a piece of software that regularly uses up all free RAM (1Gb installed) and crashes the whole machine. Now I expected this software would need a lot of RAM, so created a 2Gb swap partition when I originally installed the OS.
The problem is that SuSE *never* tries to use swap and consequently the machine crashes every time I try to run my prog. If I run top whilst running the other prog: free RAM goes down, swap usage stays the same at 0kb, always.... :(
Type "swapon -sv", that should list your available swap space. If nothing shows, you don't have your swap partitions listed in fstab. You should have something like this: /dev/hdb5 swap swap pri=42 0 0 Then you can enable them with ""swapon -av". They should be automatically mounted at boot next time. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson