Swap problems

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Sat Feb 7 18:10:03 UTC 2009


On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Dake K. Odzangba <odzangba at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I do not have a swap partition (or file) because I've got 2GB of
> physical ram. Yet the output of free tells me:

What's in your fstab?  and what is the output of 'swapon -s' ?

Swap isn't evil you know, just because you have 2 gig of ram doesn't
mean swap wouldn't be useful, and having swap is better than not
having swap.

I'd set up a gig or two of swap in a file or partition if I was you.

Brian




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