it wasn't created.... so what I did was : touch swap swapon swap 512000 swapon swap swap swap noauto 0 0 then fstab became: # Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda4 /home auto defaults,noatime 1 2 /mnt/swap swap swap noauto 0 0 # Dynamic entries below, identified by 'users' option /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 thanks for showing that to me now it is fixed top - 21:05:06 up 9 days, 23:32, 2 users, load average: 1.76, 1.26, 1.00 Tasks: 79 total, 2 running, 77 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 64.6% us, 35.4% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 385728k total, 323016k used, 62712k free, 42644k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 165256k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND On Thursday 24 April 2008 1:31 am, Kevin Faulkner wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 08:21:55PM +0000, Michael Havens wrote: > > where the heck did my swap go? > > Try checking your /etc/fstab > or you may not have created it. Its happened to me several times :) > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss