Brian Graversen wrote:
> I recently noticed that some of my programs (mplayer for instance)
> would crash with an allocation error (BadAlloc), as if I had run out
> of memory, and when I checked free, I noticed that my swap partion
> wasn't being used at all.

what does 'cat /proc/swaps' say? perhaps all you need is a swapon. if so,
you should check why swap isn't activated upon boot.

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