swap not being used

[Stephen Gilbert]

You gave your swap partitions a type of ext3?  Try going into fdisk and
changing their partition type to Linux Swap.  I think the type is 82, if
I remember correctly.

debu --- Debajit kataki wrote:
> I had a pretty old untouched server for a long time, which i thought to
> bring back to production. But what i saw was it had no swap at all.
>
>
> I crated two LVM of 2GB each, mkfs -t ext3  lvm, mkswap and a swapon. is not
> showing me that it is currently being used, even when the entire memorey got
> exhausted.
>
> Any pointer/advuce guys? Am I missing something?
>
> Regards
> ~debu
>