Re: Not using Swap?

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On Saturday 31 August 2002 21:09, P wrote:
> It's interesting that I have the same observation on rh 7.3 ... whenever 
I've 
> observed my swap activity, it's always zero.  But, your question about 
> executing "mkswap" implies that the user is supposed to do this ... I don't 
> understand that, since the swap is set up during installation, and 
supposedly 
> the boot script enables it every time you start.  Why is it necessary for a 
> user to do "mkswap" and or "swapon" if the installation went ok?

It's possible for users to setup swap later. If they don't know what they're 
doing, they might omit the mkswap command and wonder why it's not working.

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