Re: swap space and memory
Initially I installed a slink on this box, and at the
time I had 64 MB of RAM however I was unable to make a
swap partition of 128 MB. I later added another 64 MB
of RAM. I tried to resize my /home partition but
something went wrong and I wound up reformatting the
hard drive, and installed storm, then mandrake for a
few weeks. Mandrake allowed me to make a swap
partition of 128 MB. When I got the debian 2.2(potato)
cd's, I reformatted and installed potato which is what
I'm using now. The reason I was concerned is because
I've noticed that after about 9-11 days of running
this box crashes, and forces me to restarts. I was
wondering if this might have been the problem.
debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
kswapd...
This is the message that is generated after the crash.
--- Nate Amsden <aphro@portal.aphroland.org> wrote:
> did you install this on debian 2.1? or anything
> using the 2.0 kernel?
> from what i remember this was a kernel 2.0
> limitation. 124MB
> reported by the system is normal. 124*1024=126,976kB
> , add
> some more for the space the kernel takes up when it
> loads into
> memory and any memory used by modules when the
> system loads
> and you have 128MB. also bios settings such as
> shadow can
> effect how much memory is available.
>
> nate
>
> Denzil Kelly wrote:
> >
> > When I partitioned my hard drive, I noticed that I
> was
> > unable to make a swap partition of 128 MB. For
> > whatever reason, the largest partition I was able
> to
> > make was 122 MB. Why is this? Also I've noticed
> that
> > all of my memory isn't detected either. Why is
> this? I
> > have 128 MB installed, but this is what is
> reported by
> > free
> >
> > total used free shared buffers
> > cached
> > Mem: 124 120 3 45 17
> 42
> > Swap: 122 0 122
> > Total: 246 120 125
> >
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