Brian Graversen wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 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.
>
> [jobo - 16:51:40 ~]$ free
> total used free shared buffers
> cached
> Mem: 246936 242196 4740 0 8964
> 127344
> -/+ buffers/cache: 105888 141048
> Swap: 687952 0 687952
>
> Since I'm using swaret to keep my system updated with
> slackware-current, I figured current was the issue, and when I checked
> another machine I had running current, it had the same problems with
> swap.
>
> Have anyone else experienced this problem with current?
>
> regards
>
> Brian Graversen

Hi,

What kernel do you use?
I think 2.6.x :-) if so,do:

mkswap -v1 /dev/hxx
swapon -a

rintek