swap not being used

[Ezra Taylor]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:18 PM, debu --- Debajit kataki
<debajitkataki at gmail.com> 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
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Gents:
           Create you swap using fdisk first.  Make sure you use
filesystem type number 82 like Stephen said.  If you are using LVM,
perform the normal steps.  Then, do a mkswap on your logical partiton.
 If you need more detailed stepps, send me an email.



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Ezra Taylor