Re: Linux-2.5.2

[Paul Larson]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> Linus, i've a weird behavior with 2.5.2
> swapon first fails at boot ( early stage ) then it succeed ( late boot
> stage ) but the swap is not actually activated. Running swapon by hand it
> reports a seccessful operation but the swap is not on.
> I'm trying to understand what is happening ...

I am having this problem also

# swapon /dev/hda2
swapon: /dev/hda2: Success
# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        254492      40236     214256          0       2220      22432
-/+ buffers/cache:      15584     238908
Swap:            0          0          0
#

-Paul Larson