Where the hell did my swap go?!
[ link: swapbegone | tags: linux | updated: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:12:08 -0400 ]
I was minding my own business one day compiling away on my laptop. From out of nowhere, I start getting funky errors during my emerges! Read on for the full scoop.
Here is the output from the top command.. Notice swap space is suspiciously absent!
top - 11:51:49 up 83 days, 21:42, 4 users, load average: 0.60, 2.46, 2.22
Tasks: 174 total, 1 running, 173 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.3%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 905664k total, 689568k used, 216096k free, 1916k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 87460k cached WTF?!?!
zim jason # swapon /dev/sda2
swapon: /dev/sda2: Invalid argumentSo anyway, here is how I fixed it.
zim jason # mkswap /dev/sda2
zim jason # swapon /dev/sda2So now things are much happier! ;)
top - 11:56:23 up 83 days, 21:47, 4 users, load average: 0.99, 1.43, 1.82
Tasks: 182 total, 1 running, 181 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.3%us, 17.1%sy, 19.3%ni, 48.6%id, 14.0%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.5%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 905664k total, 888836k used, 16828k free, 33268k buffers
Swap: 1958032k total, 1868k used, 1956164k free, 229364k cached-db
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