Re: [uml-user] UML swap space

[Jeff D. <jd...@ad...>]

On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 11:28:15AM +1100, Gerhard wrote:
> I run UMLS using debian 2.6.8 host kernel (debian packaged SKAS patch
> applied) and a 2.4.27. kernel ( from kernels - dot - org) with base and bs1
> patches applied.  The file system I used is an upgrade Debian 3.0 r2 ext2
> file system.

An aside - is it possible to use something newer?

> I also added a mount entry into the UML's /ect/fstab file.
> I then restarted the UML and hey presto It seems I have a swap partition
> within the UML.
> 
> However.....
> How do I verify that it is infact being used.  It seems that if I make the
> initially memory for the UML small, say 30Mbytes, (which I accidentally
> did - see recent post, Stack Over Flows) the UML crashes.  It seems that the
> UML is not using the 300+M swap space at all and simply falls over.

run 'free' - it should show some swap space.

> Am I missing something while setting up the swap space?
> Is there a way of verifying that it eve works?

It works - I've had a UML ~500M into swap for the last 5 days.

				Jeff

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