Re: [TCLUG:5069] out of memory

[Dan Middleton <middle@cs.umn.edu>]

Rick,
	One of your disk partitions should be designated as swap.  You may
want to confirm this with fdisk or disk druid.  Here is the line from my
/etc/fstab.  My swap is on my third partition:

/dev/hda3	swap	swap	defaults	0 0

	Incidentally, swap won't show up in your mounted disks is you type
mount.  I'm not sure why, but it doesn't.
--Dan

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Rick Hendrickson wrote:

> Chris,
> 
> Thank you, your hunch was correct! The swap entries report '0'. Where would I
> look to find out what entry(ies) to  put in the fstab and how would I put them
> there.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Rick
> 
> Chris Kesler wrote:
> > 
> > I have a hunch that your swap partition isn't being used.  What do you see
> > when you type 'cat /proc/meminfo' ? It should give you something like:
> > 
> >         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> > Mem:  395776000 388272128  7503872 54792192 103297024 183984128
> > Swap: 133885952   880640 133005312
> > MemTotal:    386500 kB
> > MemFree:       7328 kB
> > MemShared:    53508 kB
> > Buffers:     100876 kB
> > Cached:      179672 kB
> > SwapTotal:   130748 kB
> > SwapFree:    129888 kB
> > 
> > If the Swap entries are 0, then your swap space is not being used.  A
> > possible cause might be that the swap info is missing from /etc/fstab.
> > 
> > On Sun, 4 Apr -1 rhendrickson@usinternet.com wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Folks,
> > >
> > > I've just completed my first install of Openlinux 1.3
> > > I have much to learn. I'm hoping for a pointer or two.
> > > When I use Netscape to browse the help manual all goes well until I hit the fourth link. KDE crashes and the system leaves a not so nice message that I've run out of memory.
> > > The IBM 300gl I'm using has 32meg of memory and I created a 128M swap partition.
> > >
> > > 2-
> > > The system will occassionaly lockup when I try to use a graphics program under KDE or X86.
> > >
> > > The system is unresponsive to either the mouse or the keyboard.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any hints...
> > > Rick
> > >
> > >
> > >
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