On 29 Apr 2005, at 12:03, pat.oleary at iol.ie wrote:
> my machine has started to crash a lot latel, after a bit of
> searching i noticed that both "free" & xosview show that it's not
> using any
> swap memory. I'm running SuSE 9.2 & set up a swap of 1Gb using YAST &
> later
> had a go at setting it up at the command line with "makeswap -c"
> followed by "swapon /dev/hda1" but no joy. I have been doing a little
> tweeking lately using YAST but cant think what i could do to stop it
> using
> swap memory. Any ideas or suggestions would be very welcome.
What happens when you do swapon /dev/hda1 ?
Niall
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