Don´t have swap partition

Jozsef · 10-08-2004, 03:06 PM

I have installed Suse 9.0 in my labtop Gericom.

When i did, Yast didn´t create the swap partition.

Is this bad for my sytem now?

If is this so, what could I do to fix it?

darkleaf · 10-08-2004, 03:34 PM

No it's not bad. You can create your own. You need a partitioning program and then you can create the partition (I think twice your RAM is the right size) and make it linux swap file system. Then edit your /etc/fstab file to include it.

Tinkster · 10-08-2004, 03:34 PM

If you have HEAPS of RAM (>= 512MB) and don't
try to do massive things the lack of a swapper may
go un-noticed ... if not you may find that applications
randomly die on you.

Solution is to a) re-partition or b) create a special
file in the file-system (works but makes swapping
slower) e.g.

Code:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swapper bs=1024 count=500000
mkswap /tmp/swapper
swapon /tmp/swapper

That will give you swapspace of ~ 500MB

You'd then want to edit /etc/fstab to point to
that file, too.

Cheers,
Tink

Mara · 10-08-2004, 03:36 PM

In fact, you're not obligated to have one. BTW Swap should be max 512MB if you're not doing heavy graphic processing.