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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, sindi keesan wrote:

> You lost the bet.  I made a swap file of 160MB (I thought I had posted
> this info but it seems to have gone astray) and RP still exits with
> segmentation fault.  The remaining experiment would be to move the hard
> drive to the faster computer and see what RP does in that situation.

I think you forgot to do "swapon swapfile."  There still may be a chance
of winning this bet :).  Here'a a flashback from May 25th, 2003 Basiclinux
archives:

Steven Darnold wrote-
Here's one for a 64mb swap file:
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cd /
dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1k count=65536
mkswap swapfile
sync
swapon swapfile
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If you did miss that step, as it appears from your post, you did not add
any extra memory.  Run "free" to be sure the swapfile got activated.
Also, did you try sticking in the extra RAM chip?

James