On 12/16/05, Daniel B. Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > >[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Daniel B. Thurman > >Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 6:41 PM > >To: For users of Fedora Core releases > >Subject: RE: How to check if swap is working? > > > > > >>From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > >>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steven Ringwald > >>Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 6:35 PM > >>To: For users of Fedora Core releases > >>Subject: Re: How to check if swap is working? > >> > >> > >>Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> > >>>Folks, > >>> > >>>I had to rebuild my filesystem and I have no idea if my swap > >>>is working or not, so how can I check it? > >>> > >> > >> > >>% cat /proc/swaps > >> > >>This will tell you (in a parsable format) which swap devices > >exist and > >>how large they are, etc. > >> > >>Steve > >> > >> > >>-- > >>fedora-list mailing list > >>fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >> > > > >Ok, thanks to Warren and Steve for the tips! > > > >Turns out that my swap failed to work. I thought that when I > >did a mkswap, a label would be used and the fstab would somehow > >get correctly set. I was wrong on both counts. grrr. > > > >I had to hardpath the swap (/dev/hda3) into the fstab and > >then run swapon -a command. I rechecked swap and now I have > >something other than "0" > > > >Again, thanks for the tips! > > > >Dan > > > > > Errrr.... I show that I do have the swap partition loaded with > available swap space showing however I see that 0 swap is being > used. Is this normal? > > How do I test to see if swap will work when needed? I see > no activity at this time.... > > Dan > Use of swap depends upon the amount of physical memory that you have installed. Try running Openoffice.og Writer and several other big applications such as GIMP and Eclipse.
