swap

[paulb]

my linux system is working fine, except that 'Abuse' SDL version is installed sucessfully and wont run. it may because i have bad luck, but i think it might be memory. will a swap partion increase the memory, or is a swap partion just for swapping between windows and linux or somthing like that. also, everywhere in this post that I refurred to memory, i mean ram. ;)

[camelrider]

A swap partition is virtual memory. When running processes require more memory than you have physically onboard, they swap out some of the stuff not currently active to the swap partition so the active portions can use the physical RAM.

[paulb]

thanks... i was hoping that would be the answer. i know that there is an NHF, and those are always helpful, but does anyone have any other links to sites that might help me create a swap partion?

[MaxWave]

you don't have a swap file? Hard to believe?

look at your fstab file and see if there is a line that starts with swap. more /etc/fstab. Your fstab file might be somewhere else.

I'm not to sure how you would add a swap partition but are u sure that is even the problem in the first place?

[paulb]

i might have a swap partion. i did the take over hard drive option in Corel Linux.