On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 16:04 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:33:40PM -0400, RICHARD wrote: > > I'm using FC4 on a Dell Inspiron 2200 (for over 1 year). OOo has started > > crashing when working with inserting large picture files (although I've > > worked with them in the past without problem). I noticed in xosview that > > the physical memory (0.5GB) quickly goes up near the maximum and then OOo > > exits. I also noticed that the swap space (which I believe is about 1GB) > > always shows exactly zero. (On a 2gb memory dual opteron system, xosview > > reports 845mb.) Shouldn't xosview show some swap space being used? > > I don't know about xosview, as I don't use it. But free might or might > not show any swap in use during normal usage. e.g: > > $ free -m > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 1519 1484 35 0 193 852 > -/+ buffers/cache: 437 1081 > Swap: 4094 1 4093 > > shows four GB of swap mounted and one megabyte of swap in use. > > # free -m > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 234 230 4 0 26 60 > -/+ buffers/cache: 143 91 > Swap: 0 0 0 > > shows swap off. > > > > > Here is the partition table reported by fdisk: > > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > > /dev/hda6 2570 2697 1028128+ 82 Linux swap / > > Solaris > > > Any ideas on how I can check on whether swap is being used and/or turn > > sway back on if it is actually not being used? > > First, to ensure that swap is turned on at boot, be sure it is in > /etc/fstab. e.g I have: > > LABEL=SWAP-hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > or maybe, if you aren't a fan of disk labels: > > /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > Then simply run: > > swapon /dev/hda6 > > to get it running. No response, in Unix tradition, indicates > success. If swap is already enabled on that partition, you'll see: > > # swapon /dev/hda6 > swapon: /dev/hda3: Device or resource busy > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list I can't get swapon to work and I'm sure swap is off. [root@ophth-bilora chippy]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 495 487 7 0 26 203 -/+ buffers/cache: 258 237 Swap: 0 0 0 [root@ophth-bilora chippy]# /sbin/swapon /dev/hda6 swapon: /dev/hda6: Invalid argument [root@ophth-bilora chippy]# cat /etc/fstab # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0 /dev/hdb /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 Here is what dmesg shows: Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet resume2=swap:/dev/hda6 audit(1158897380.741:4): avc: denied { unlink } for pid=1852 comm="swapon" name="blkid.tab.old" dev=dm-0 ino=1733754 scontext=system_u:system_r:fsadm_t tcontext=root:object_r:etc_t tclass=file Unable to find swap-space signature Unable to find swap-space signature Unable to find swap-space signature Unable to find swap-space signature Unable to find swap-space signature Unable to find swap-space signature A few days ago (right before this problem started), I installed acpitool and I tried to do a suspend (which didn't work). I think that screwed something up! Rick B.
