Swapping problems !

Karan Misra (k_i_d_o@rediffmail.com)
10 Aug 2002 06:27:50 -0000


I am hving a peculiar problem:

When ever I am loading a few applications (XEmacs, KDE, gcc,
VMWare) on my 256M machine(520M swap), my system goes for a
run...

What exactly happens is the Harddisk just thrases and my computer
slows down to a crawl. Only a reboot solves the problem.

However I tried something like:

swapoff /dev/hda2; swapon /dev/hda2

and the problem stopped... I run ext3 on /boot & /

Anyway can HELP me...

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