Swap partition activated?

astromech · 10-08-2007, 03:57 AM

Hi, I installed Vector linux today and it's kinda sluggish compared to other distros I've tried .Seeing as it has a reputation for being fast I checked out Ksysguard and it said swap usage was 0 and almost all my memory (256K of ram) was being used.Here is the info from running free -mem:

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 244 233 10 0 15 88
-/+ buffers/cache: 129 115
Swap: 0 0 0

Could it be that my swap partition is not activated?

syg00 · 10-08-2007, 04:14 AM

Yes . . .

astromech · 10-08-2007, 06:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

Yes . . .

O.K. but I need to know how to activate it.

colucix · 10-08-2007, 06:36 AM

You can look in /etc/fstab to see what partition (device) is set for swap. Then, you can try

Code:

swapon /dev/xxxx

where xxxx matches the above device. Anyway, this should be accomplished from the init scripts at boot!
The command

Code:

swapon -s

verifies that the swap space was properly added.

astromech · 10-09-2007, 06:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colucix

You can look in /etc/fstab to see what partition (device) is set for swap. Then, you can try

Code:

swapon /dev/xxxx

where xxxx matches the above device. Anyway, this should be accomplished from the init scripts at boot!
The command

Code:

swapon -s

verifies that the swap space was properly added.

Thanks to everyone who answered .My I used the gparted cd and my swap space was formatted to reiserfs so I formatted to swap changed a line in fstb and now it's activated!