swap?

Forum: HD Install
Topic: swap?
started by: liran

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Posted by liran on June 27 2005,20:49

i've actually had crashes here and there with dsl but i figured its all because of the low specs system i have it runing on (laptop p2 200mhz with 32mb ram).

im seeing with 'free' that there's no swap usage (free shows 0 total of swap, although i've configured about a 256mb partition which is /dev/hda3 for linux swap)

i tried swapon -a /dev/hda3 but it just throws me away to the usage screen.

any ideas?

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Posted by liran on June 27 2005,20:51

nevermind.
solved the problem. i had to do mkswap on /dev/hda3 first and then run swapon /dev/hda3
it works fine now.

i love this forum.
you get inspirationl along the posts

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Posted by ke4nt1 on June 28 2005,06:48

nice...   Good work..

Let us know how well the swap improves your abilities..

73
ke4nt

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Posted by LancerNZ on June 28 2005,08:54

Thanks for asking. Came in here wanting to know the same thing. Saved me the trouble typing and gave me the answer straight away.  

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