Tony Bolger wrote:
>> One of my rather overspeced linux servers had an attack of the old
> 'Unable to fork' problem on Sunday. Normally, this would be annoying
> enough, but on a server with 400MB of free RAM, its just not on. This
> machine is a 2.2.12 box, and needed a reboot to fix. Free command gives:
>> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 517088 485400 31688 54996 339928 82776
> -/+ buffers/cache: 62696 454392
> Swap: 130748 1884 128864
>> I know swap is supposed to be > RAM, but turbolinux's mkswap only
> supported 128MB swap partitions, even though a gig has been allocated.
> Need to fix that i suppose.
>> Any ideas? Will a newer kernel or the 1GB swap fix it?
Well, you can delete the existing 1GB swap partition, create an extended
partition with 8 x 128MB ones, and put them all into /etc/fstab as swap
spaces.
swapon -a will bring all 1GB online immediately.
Vin
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