Re: [cobalt-users] kswapd went zombie and other bad things

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 07 February 2003 17:37, Grant Stern wrote:
> hey all,
>
>    been a while since i've posted, but i'll get down to it.
>
> my kswapd became a zombied process earlier today.  i rebooted, which
> should have run badblocks and fixed the immediate problem, that the
> swap partition had some corruption.
>
> the lingering problem is this.  i have just finished maxing out my raq2
> to 256 MB of ram, but the swap partition is still only 130 MB of ram,
> which upsets the little blue box to no end.  right now, there are 30 MB
> of physical ram free on the server under normal load.  it isn't
> swapping that much, but because the swap space is now so much smaller
> than the physical ram, the machine is sending me emails askin for more
> ram.
>
> does anyone know a reliable way to change the size of the swap
> partition short of running a restore?  is there a workaround that i can
> plug in so the machine thinks it has plenty of space??
>

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cobalt-users&m=103165843627207&w=2
this adds the /etc/fstab entry that was forgotten in the first link.

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