Prelink eating all my resources

[Dotan Cohen]

On 8/1/05, Peter Teuben <teuben at astro.umd.edu> wrote:
> I had reported on a similar problem, and finally paid attention to the
> output of "df" which showed 0 usage of swap. In fact, total was 0 too,
> i.e. i had no swap despite that it was installed with swap. Turned
> out the /etc/fstab file had a rather curious line in it:
> 
> LABEL=   swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> 
> where the = sign was followed by 15 0xAA characters (that dind't print
> in the cut&paste above)!! So, no wonder. I suspect it is something in
> the installed that is broken, since i install redhat systems fairly
> regularly, or i overlooked a new(?)  requirement that partitions be
> labeled.
> 
> Anyways, after hardcoding
> /dev/hda5                swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> and running 'swapon' i'm back in business.  e2label and making a nice label
> of course also would do the job.
> 
> I only have 640MB on this laptop, so i guess a swap is pretty important,
> although you don't often run into this problem and it can take weeks before
> you figured it out.
> 
> peter
> 

Thank you Peter. I will look into this as soon as I get home (at the
university at the moment).

640MB on the laptop!?! My Desktop doesn't have that:)

Dotan
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