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My system freezes quite often when run out of memory, I have 2GB and using netbeans, chrome, firefox and a few other apps this is consumed completely. Seems to me since I upgraded to ubuntu natty.

ubuntu natty current 

uname -a
2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

from /etc/fstab

UUID=7f3586b2-14c3-455c-a5bd-7adbc8174589 /srv            xfs     defaults        0       2
/dev/sda2       none            swap    sw              0       0

I tried setting 

sysctl vm.swappiness=100

but no effect. It' always like:

It looks always like that:

Every 2,0s: free -m                                         Wed Jul 13 20:20:26 2011

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1758       1697         61          0         55        633
-/+ buffers/cache:       1008        750
Swap:            0          0          0

What can I do to test if my swap works?

groovehunter
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From what it looks like in your output, you have no swapspace at all active in this system.

Have you formatted your swap volume /dev/sda2 using the mkswap command?

If you run 'swapon -a' and then do a free -m, does it show any swap space?

The swappiness parameter will not do anything if you have no swap space of course.

mdpc
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  • Seems I havent read exactly the output of free... no swap at all! No idea why it wasn't setup in installation procedure - or maybe there was a prob on dist upgrade to natty. Thx for your hint mdpc; After `swapon -a` it, I see my 8393M swap space. Where do I have to edit to make it activated on boot? – groovehunter Jul 14 '11 at 06:18