Hi,

While booting the machine,the system seems hang due to enabling swap space.
We installed red hat 4.2 in vmware (windows xp).

[root@perf1 /]# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/swapfile2 file 2867592 152600 -1
/dev/sda2 partition 2867592 0 -2

[root@per1 /]# cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/swapfile2 file 2867592 152572 -1
/dev/sda2 partition 2867592 0 -2

[root@per1 /]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1170 706 463 0 1 254
-/+ buffers/cache: 450 719
Swap: 5600 148 5451

[root@per1 /]#

[root@per1 /]# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 1198340 kB
MemFree: 471512 kB
Buffers: 1808 kB
Cached: 260996 kB
SwapCached: 4556 kB
Active: 666508 kB
Inactive: 13748 kB
HighTotal: 294848 kB
HighFree: 6592 kB
LowTotal: 903492 kB
LowFree: 464920 kB
SwapTotal: 5735184 kB
SwapFree: 5582660 kB
Dirty: 368 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
Mapped: 655860 kB
Slab: 22232 kB
Committed_AS: 2554848 kB
PageTables: 11128 kB
VmallocTotal: 106488 kB
VmallocUsed: 5512 kB
VmallocChunk: 100776 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
Hugepagesize: 4096 kB

[root@perf /]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 17.1 GB, 17179869184 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2088 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1731 13904226 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1732 2088 2867602+ 82 Linux swap


whenever boot the machine we faced it.please anyone help me out that.

Do you mean RedHat Enterprise 4.2?

You have not posted anything to describe what exactly happens during boot up.

/proc/meminfo is showing a total swap value that seems to match the sum of your swap partition and the swapfile. Did you specifically (intentionally) create both of these?