Nowadays I am running open SUSE 10.2

I am a bit confused by the output of df command.
It does not show the swap partition.

linux-t6j2:~ # df -Th
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/hda7 ext3 8.9G 3.4G 5.1G 40% /

udev tmpfs 502M 92K 502M 1% /dev

/dev/hda3 ext3 21G 194M 20G 1% /home

/dev/hda5 ext3 84G 229M 80G 1% /mnt/hda5

linux-t6j2:~ #

Does the above mean that the swap partition is dead or rather inactive?

My swap partition is hda6 and it has 3.0 GB.
On open SUSE 10.2, you will find an icon named 'partitioner'. If I look deep into that icon, it shows the swap partition.

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(1) Yast control Center

(2) Partitioner

It says 'hda6 ' has 3.0 GB.
Type is Linux swap
Mount is swap
Mount by K
Start 6520 and
End is 6912

try
and if You got it installed:
carefully read te outputs, and You might firure out if You have swap to your disposal or not.

Thanks for the reply.

linux-t6j2:~ # free
total used free shared buffers cached

Mem: 1027832 680180 347652 0 26752 414740

-/+ buffers/cache: 238688 789144
Swap: 3156700 0 3156700
linux-t6j2:~ #

The command top showed the existence of swap partition. It is scrolling all the time and I am unable to copy and past here.

Do you think I have an active swap partition?

The swap partition is neither dead nor inactive.
df doesn't show it, because it makes no sense for df.
it is used by the kernel as a fridge for brain cells. df doesn't eat brain cells but the kernel does.

Thanks Agrouf for the comments.

There should be a working swap partition on my system. I have 1GB of RAM. Sometimes I open about 10 web pages and the word processor. I don't think 1GB RAM is enough to bear the burden.

I don't want you to come with the suggestion buying more RAM memory. This computer is slightly old and RAM is bit expensive.

The bottom line is whether my swap partition is working. Please tell me.

You aren't even close to needing more memory. Swap hasn't even been touched, but *yes*, it is working.
You are only using 238688k (i.e. 233 Meg) of your memory for "real work" - don't worry, be happy.

buddy, I open 3 to four webpages in firefox with xmms running and KDE with 1/16 GBram (64MB) with casual swapping to 64MB swap
and on another PC I open a dozen of webpages in konqueror with OpenOfficeWriter on KDE with 192MB of RAM without touching swap
It's Linux for crying out loud it's ram-efficient.

Did You ever used gkrellm? try it buddy

Thanks everybody for the replies
I haven't heard about gkrellm.
I just checked it on Google. It seems they haven't got a program for open SUSE 10.2.

They have a program for SUSE 9.1

Thanks everybody for the replies
I haven't heard about gkrellm.
I just checked it on Google. It seems they haven't got a program for open SUSE 10.2.

They have a program for SUSE 9.1