Guest richard_haggath Posted February 2, 2003 Report Share Posted February 2, 2003 i just installed mandrake 9.0 it's great and my first time with linux. problem is it takes an age to load any programs up. even simple games take an age to load from the amusement section. i have a 1.8GHz athlon 256Mb 333Mhz ddr ram 10 gigs of hard drive space dual booting with win xp home. i did notice that linux is installed in this partition with no linux swap partition is this normal?? help once the program loads to memory it's lightning fast and no compatibility problems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted February 2, 2003 Report Share Posted February 2, 2003 If you did a normal, install, mdk must have created a swap partition, are you sure there is no swap ?? Also, mdk loads many services at boot time, some you will not need, and these can slow down your system. For a list of running services, and what they do, read here: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/docs/admin/aservice2.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest richard_haggath Posted February 2, 2003 Report Share Posted February 2, 2003 i ran partition magic 7 pro from my xp install. and it shows my xp partition and a linux ext2 partition but no linux swap. i have tried a long time ago with mdk 7 and remember the swap file but there is not one here. can a swap file be made or will i have to reinstall (which i don't mind cos i reckon it'll teach me a bit more about he system watching it again) :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 2, 2003 Report Share Posted February 2, 2003 Open the Mandrake Control Center and go to Mount Points>Hard Drives, and see if diskdrake shows a swap. You could also look at /etc/fstab, or type free in a terminal; [bvc@localhost bvc]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 190972 171312 19660 0 23432 57520 -/+ buffers/cache: 90360 100612 Swap: 401584 20676 380908 I have PM7 (not pro) and it use to show a Linux Swap when I had ext2fs, but since switching to reiserfs it doesn't....now it shows all as ext2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest richard_haggath Posted February 2, 2003 Report Share Posted February 2, 2003 thanks a lot will try it and post back if it is successful. i am pretty good when it comes to windows but linux is so new it's like the first time i ever switched a computer on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest richard_haggath Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 :D fixed it i re installed in expert mode setting the partitions manually and guess what it's sorted. i definetely had no swap file before but have now. everything runs so much quicker and look forward to messing with it somewhat. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 Congrats !! enjoy linux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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