Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Oct 2002 10:23:37 +0100 | From | Alex Riesen <> | Subject | Re: Swap doesn't work |
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> I've made my linux-from-scratch with latest stable (2.4.19) kernel, made > swap, turned it on but it doesn't work. It seems it does but when there's > not enough memory, the system crashes. Either it kills the application > desiring more memory (gcc or something) or crashes the kernel with memory > dump. Neither the 2.4.20-pre5-ac3 helped.
Does your swap partition show up in /proc/swaps? It has to contain something like this:
Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/hda6 partition 506008 0 -1
Btw, do you see something swap-related in dmesg? Like:
Unable to find swap-space signature Unable to handle swap header version ... Swap area shorter than signature indicates Empty swap-file
And do you actually see something like this: Adding Swap: 506008k swap-space (priority -1)
How did you initialized the swap partition? Recent kernels support both v1 and v2 swaps, which is can be set for mkswap using -v0 (-v1). Actually i mean did you initialized it at all? 8)
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