[Nottingham] Oops

[Tom Bird]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Graeme Fowler wrote:

> I did, that's why I said "decoded". I simply wanted a second (or more!)opinion
> on what it might have been. As it tunred out my vague suspicions appeared
> well-founded in that it turned out - or at least seems that way - to have been
> a corrupt swap partition.
>
> I switched swap off, dd'd /dev/zero to it to flatten it, recreated swap again
> and switched it back on. The server's been lovely ever since :)

Gosh, and I'd assumed the swap partition got restarted afresh every time
it was brought into service.  Learn something new every month :)

-t