Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 09:22:23 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Simon Burke <simon.burke@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Swap partition not used? Message-ID: <41BB10AF.2070008@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <2d7d2dd20412110536b23afd6@mail.gmail.com> References: <2d7d2dd20412110536b23afd6@mail.gmail.com>
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Simon Burke wrote: >Hiya, > >After a while of using 5.3RELEASE, i have noticed a small problem, my >swap partition isnt getting used. Well its not a small problem >considering that i have only 256mb ram on this machine. > >boredom# swapctl -l >Device: 1024-blocks Used: >/dev/ad0s1b 482112 56 > >this i suppose shows that some of it is used but the amount used never >increases. I'm currently using 100% memory (installing openoffice from >ports, finally). > >It is in /etc/fstab as: > ># Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# >/dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 > >I've tried using swapon -a to add it and it doesnt seem to have worked. > >Its also does not show in df -ha ,though i cant recall if it is >supposed to be there. Though i dont think it has to be mounted? > > No, swap doesn't have a mount point, per se. Does swapinfo(8) give the same output as `swapctl -l` ? Kevin Kinsey
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