swap on slackware

 

Add to following to /etc/fstab

/dev/sda4        none             swap        defaults         0   0 

then make the swap file;

 

mkswap /dev/sda4

 

then activate;

 

swapon /dev/sda4

the following should tell us that swap is activated and running;

 

cat /proc/swaps
 

top should also show something other than 0 

the above example uses /dev/sda4 as the swap partition.