On Wednesday 01 June 2005 12:43 pm, Eric Storch wrote: > I am not sure why but my system is not swapping. > > When I run swapon -s it shows: > Filename Type Size Used > Priority/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 partition > 2031608 0 -9 > > When I run free -m it shows: > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 1003 986 16 0 81 450 > -/+ buffers/cache: 454 548 > Swap: 1983 0 1983 > > The really odd thing here is when I open a terminal i get: > > bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > bash-3.00$ > > How can I force the kernel to swap? > uname -a shows : > 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 #1 Tue May 17 20:27:37 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > any info is good info, and thanks. If I am reading this correctly you are running 1Gbyte of memory. Your systen may never use swap, mine normally doesn't with 512Mbytes. -- John H Ludwig Common sense is so rare, why do they call it common!!! I'm not schitziod! I got better tomorrow.