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For some reason my swap apprears to be inactive, my ram is at 495 out of 512 (aprox) and my swap is untouched. i could sucessfuly mkswap on my swap ...
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    Swap issues

    For some reason my swap apprears to be inactive, my ram is at 495 out of 512 (aprox) and my swap is untouched. i could sucessfuly mkswap on my swap partion /dev/hda2 but when I tried swapon /dev/hda2 i got an error reading swapon: /dev/hda2: Device or resource busy
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    as I can tell th primary issue is that the priority of the swap is set to -1, i think it at least needs to be 0.... reguardless, does anyone know how to change this? also, i dont think that DMA is disabled on my drive anymore, but i cannot rember how to change it.
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