Re: [TCLUG:5069] out of memory

[Rick Hendrickson <rhendrickson@usinternet.com>]

Chris,

Thank you, your hunch was correct! The swap entries report '0'. Where would I
look to find out what entry(ies) to  put in the fstab and how would I put them
there.

Thanks again,
Rick

Chris Kesler wrote:
> 
> I have a hunch that your swap partition isn't being used.  What do you see
> when you type 'cat /proc/meminfo' ? It should give you something like:
> 
>         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  395776000 388272128  7503872 54792192 103297024 183984128
> Swap: 133885952   880640 133005312
> MemTotal:    386500 kB
> MemFree:       7328 kB
> MemShared:    53508 kB
> Buffers:     100876 kB
> Cached:      179672 kB
> SwapTotal:   130748 kB
> SwapFree:    129888 kB
> 
> If the Swap entries are 0, then your swap space is not being used.  A
> possible cause might be that the swap info is missing from /etc/fstab.
> 
> On Sun, 4 Apr -1 rhendrickson@usinternet.com wrote:
> 
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I've just completed my first install of Openlinux 1.3
> > I have much to learn. I'm hoping for a pointer or two.
> > When I use Netscape to browse the help manual all goes well until I hit the fourth link. KDE crashes and the system leaves a not so nice message that I've run out of memory.
> > The IBM 300gl I'm using has 32meg of memory and I created a 128M swap partition.
> >
> > 2-
> > The system will occassionaly lockup when I try to use a graphics program under KDE or X86.
> >
> > The system is unresponsive to either the mouse or the keyboard.
> >
> > Thanks for any hints...
> > Rick
> >
> >
> >
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