Redhat9 freezing randomly

[Brizzzer]

Good news making the swap partition 1GB did the trick. I have not had a problem yet!!! This is so cool. Now time to see what I can do with this thing.

[aytope]

well thanks for the lovely suggestion but how do i edit my swap space ? thanks

i have tried mkswap command but the system still sees the old swap of 188mb. so how do i increase it to something higher?

[Opnosforatou]

I haven't experienced this with Slackware, only with Red Hat and Fedora.
Don't know the exact cause of this.

To create a swap partition use fdisk /dev/hda
use the key: P to show all active partitions.
Create an partition double the size of your available memory
save the new disk info, save using: wq (W=write,Q=quit)
and reboot.
Note: /dev/hda is used as example here, you could use a swappartition of your 2nd disc, that would be /dev/hdb

After rebooting login as root.
type:

mkswap /dev/hda5 (Assuming that the newly created partition is number 5)

Important: the number is of the partition you created for the swap, to check what number that partition has use fdisk /dev/hda and the P to show the partition table information.

to activate the swapfile:

swapon /dev/hda5

Now edit your fstab in /etc and add the following line:

/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

It is also possible to use multiple swap partitions.
Let say you have a swap partition of 128MB on DiskB and 128MB on DiskC
Then you add the following to the fstab

/dev/hdb1 swap swap sw,pri=5 0 0
/dev/hdc1 swap swap sw,pri=5 0 0

Note: Your fstab file contains all partitions, drives, etc that will be mounted at boot time.
For further info on the fstab type: man fstab and enjoy the reading.