Maybe your have a "MANIAC" sys admin:
http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/know.your.sysadmin.html

Just trying to prevent users from taking too much memory.  :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Sherohman [mailto:esper at sherohman.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 11:51 AM
> To: TCLUG
> Subject: [TCLUG] Disappearing swap?
> 
> 
> Just had some problems with an SMP server which turned out to 
> have been due to the swap partitions having (apparently) 
> turned themselves off.  I've gone through the logs, but 
> didn't find anything recorded there up until the first error 
> about being unable to load /lib/ld-linux.so.2.  Kernel is 
> 2.2.19 SMP.  Anyone have any ideas why the swap might have 
> been disabled?
> 
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