[Nottingham] My Linux broke (Rennacker Ed)

[Jim Moore]

Hi. I've had similar problems on a clients' Windows server box: slow to 
respond in everything, stuff appearing to have hung, etc. Turned out to 
be that he'd gone out of warranty by adding memory (the incorrect speed, 
as it turned out).

He'd done the sensible on the system by previously fixing the amount of 
swap space, only he hadn't adjusted for the extra RAM.

Quick fix was to boot into safe mode, kill the swapfile, adjust the 
partition size then reinstate the swapfile. After that things were sweet.

To do this with SuSE you need to boot Ranish partition editor, delete 
the swap partition, then resize the root partition to accomodate the new 
swap partition, then make a new one and restart.

If you do this with Knoppix (I don't know if it can be done with 
Knoppix, having never tried) you need to use the noswap switch (check 
the cheatcodes, I'm not sure what the switch is) otherwise Knoppix will 
use whatever Linux swap partitions it detects.

HTH,

Jim