Re: Swap doesn't work

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Oct 26 2002 - 10:44:00 EST


On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 16:14, Vladimír Třebický wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've made my linux-from-scratch with latest stable (2.4.19) kernel, made
> swap, turned it on but it doesn't work. It seems it does but when there's
> not enough memory, the system crashes. Either it kills the application
> desiring more memory (gcc or something) or crashes the kernel with memory
> dump. Neither the 2.4.20-pre5-ac3 helped.

Does this occur if you take a kernel build on a standard distribution
and boot it on your box rather than one generated by a hand built tool
chain ?

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