Prelink eating all my resources

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:17:02AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 8/1/05, Peter Teuben <teuben at astro.umd.edu> wrote:
> > I had reported on a similar problem, and finally paid attention to the
> > output of "df" which showed 0 usage of swap. In fact, total was 0 too,
> > i.e. i had no swap despite that it was installed with swap. Turned
> > out the /etc/fstab file had a rather curious line in it:
> > 
> > LABEL=   swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> > 
> > where the = sign was followed by 15 0xAA characters (that dind't print
> > in the cut&paste above)!! So, no wonder. I suspect it is something in
> > the installed that is broken, since i install redhat systems fairly
> > regularly, or i overlooked a new(?)  requirement that partitions be
> > labeled.
> > 
This is not true. Partitions may be, but do not have to be labeled.

> > Anyways, after hardcoding
> > /dev/hda5                swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> > and running 'swapon' i'm back in business.  e2label and making a nice label
> > of course also would do the job.
> > 
> > I only have 640MB on this laptop, so i guess a swap is pretty important,
> > although you don't often run into this problem and it can take weeks before
> > you figured it out.
> > 
> > peter
> > 
> 
> Thank you Peter. I will look into this as soon as I get home (at the
> university at the moment).
> 
> 640MB on the laptop!?! My Desktop doesn't have that:)
> 
> Dotan
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