Puppy Swap File Questions

[hakar]

how to make Puppy 4.2 to use the Linux-swap partition, the partition is (512 MB) as sda2 is mounted by Puppy but unused. 'Conky System Monitor' shows on 0 !! use

[Aitch]

Hakar

If you have reasonably large ram it may not get used unless you are doing something intensive, like compiling or video editing,

or maybe just conky not displaying it

I have 1 Gb ram and it's split between virtual puppy 214x9 and xp, I am on here, listening to CD, browsing with several tabs open, and it's still not using swap, as shown in Htop

Aitch

[PaulBx1]

Use the "free" command in a console window.

[gcmartin]

Does Puppy "automatically" look for and know to use a SWAP partition on disk when he's running from LiveCD?

[rjbrewer]

Does Puppy "automatically" look for and know to use a SWAP partition on disk when he's running from LiveCD?

Yes

[hakar]

Aitch,
my machine is a Pentium II 350 MHz owerklock 392 MHz, 131 MB of RAM only .
PaulBx1 - big thanks, but there's nothing like the console, Puppy started using the SWAP partition, instead of using the command swapon -a / dev/sda3 , But reluctant to use it (488kB) - Puppy is great - now all about
Conki shows the use of swaps in the subtitles is not a bar graphic.

Thanks again for your prompt assistance and interest

[Aitch]

hakar,

can you post the result of menu/system/xproc/memory?

and in gparted, does the swap partition show as FS type 82?

Is not using the swap partition actually causing a problem, or is this a conky thing??

If it IS a swap thing, you could try a swapfile, to test it

You can use a regular file in an ordinary partition. All you have to do is create a file of the size you want

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/pupswap,swp bs=1024 count=131072
and activate it
mkswap -f /var/pupswap.swp
swapon /var/pupswap.swp

This invocation creates a file called pupswap.swp in /var.
It is 128 Mb long (128 x 1024 = 131072). Initially, it is filled with zeros. However, mkswap marks it as swap space and swapon tells the kernel to start using it as swap space.
When you are done with it,

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swapoff /var/pupswap.swp
rm /var/pupswap.swp

I believe that should work, though I haven't tried it, as I'm using virtual puppy and don't need it
I used /var as I'm not sure of your install type
- it maybe should be root...?

Better yet, see Bruce B's method here, as there seems some doubt about it, and whether puppy will create it

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=36856

good luck

Aitch

[hakar]

Aitch thanks
You're right in a previous post. The puppy is doing well from memory. SWAP is used only as really needed. Conky good, but how little Puppy uses SWAP is not visible in a graphical bar . I ran many programs (browser, java, convert mp3, photo viewer) Puppy benefited from SWAP (4%), John M. knew what he was doing, and I will not Puppy be corrected on this.

Yours and thanks for the quick response

[svgt]

I want to change the position of the swap partition. Under a puppy live-cd the gparted refuses to swapoff the partition.

In which way is it possible to swapoff this partition? Booting with pfix=ram was no solution.

[Béèm]

With the swapoff command

[svgt]

swapoff is rejected with error code.

I managed it with another noname linux rescue cd. There swapoff was possible.