Re: [LI] info about swap & cronjob

[Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 linuxfan@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>  I had kept my swap partition as 256 MB in my linux box.
> I want to know whether the linux will use the whole 256Mb as swap or i had
> to do some change and recompile the kernel in order to make it use whole
> of 256MB.?

Since kernel 2.2, Linux uses any amount of swap, even if it is more than
127MB. You need to do nothing at all to kick that off.

Try runnin "free" to see what the usage is. Are you sure that swap is
*enabled* (using "swapon" - typically run from the initialisation files in
/etc/rc.d?

Atul

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