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Re: Swap space not used



On Mi, 02 mai 12, 15:48:30, Bret Busby wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I am running Debian 6.
> 
> When I installed it, I had a swap partition of about 40GB set up, as
> is shown by gparted.
 
four zero Gigabytes? My / + /home are only 27GB :)

> But, for some strnge reason, Debian 6will not use the swap space,
> even though gparted shows it to be "Active".
> 
> Instead of Debian 6 using the swap[ partition, it just runs out of
> memory, progressively, requiring rebooting every few days.

Please show the output of 'free', 'cat /etc/fstab' and 'fdisk -l' (the 
last one will need root).

Kind regards,
Andrei
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