OpenSuse 11.4 m5 won't use the SWAP well

I have a PC with 512 MB of RAM, and I have a GB of Swap space. After a few MB into SWAP, it likes to crash. It’s probably a bug, tell the developers!

How to i make it read all the swap it needs when all the RAM is used up?

Hi
Much better to search here to see if a bug exists, if not create one :slight_smile:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/index.cgi

On 12/18/2010 08:36 PM, renegadeviking wrote:
>
> I have a PC with 512 MB of RAM, and I have a GB of Swap space. After a
> few MB into SWAP, it likes to crash. It’s probably a bug, tell the
> developers!
>
> How to i make it read all the swap it needs when all the RAM is used
> up?

What do you mean it “likes to crash”? What are the symptoms?

To test if this is a general problem, I booted my 11.4 M5 sandbox with 400M of
memory and ran a lot of applications. Other than being sluggish as expected, it
worked fine. The ‘free’ command showed:


larry@linux-9m4a:~> free
total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        389080     383480       5600          0       1696      95948
-/+ buffers/cache:     285836     103244
Swap:      2097184     220760    1876424

As you can see, I am using 220 MB of swap. This system is 32-bit.