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["Les Myer @ Hotmail" <lmyer_rwl AT hotmail.com>]

Hi Steven,

Did what you said, confirmed the swap was working, and then put the swapon
line in /etc/rc.  I now have a 24MB swap file working after boot.

Thanks very much for all your help.  Now I'll leave you alone (for a while
at least) and actually start using BL3 :-)

Best regards,

Les Myer



> Les Myer @ Hotmail wrote:
> >
> > Does BL3 automatically use my swap partition,
> > or do I need to set that up?
>
> To activate swap do the following:
> ----------------
> swapon /dev/hda2
> ----------------
> Execute 'free' to confirm swap is working.
>
> If there is some problem, it probably means your
> swap partition has not been formatted.  To format
> it, do the following:
> ----------------
> mkswap /dev/hda2
> ----------------
> WARNING: before you do the above, make sure your swap
> partition is actually located at /dev/hda2.  To check
> do the following:
> --------
> fdisk -l
> --------
>
> Normally swap is activated automatically at system
> startup.  You can do this by putting the swapon line
> in /etc/rc.
>
> > I only have 12MB on this old Compaq LTE Lite 4/33C
> > notebook and I think BL3 could probably benefit from
> > a swap file.  What do you think?
>
> I agree.  I have a laptop with 12mb RAM and I use a 24mb
> swap partition on it.  That works well (even for running
> X applications).  If you are short of HD space, you can
> get by with less swap, but try to make it at least 12mb
> (the same size as your RAM).
>
> Cheers,
> Steven