HD Install :: Is swap partition being used?

I just did a Frugal install (thanks for the document Clivesay). Seemd to work well. Been using Knoppix and Feather. I set up a swap partition and assigned it the proper type (82). The SLIT program window shows swap 0 all the time. Further, when I type df, I don't see the swap partition. Do I need to tell DSL that I have swap? Seems that I wouldn't have to, but I'm not sure?

Well,

I figured it out. I set up the swap using mke2fs, not mkswap. Did it right then did swapon. Running a lot better, but the swap seems to be around 98% used all of the time, with memory usage around 45-60%. Wonder if the swap is too small? I set up 200M swap with 32M RAM.

I thought the numbers in the slit were how much was unused. Meaning that it hasnt really touched your swap much becuase you still have approx. 50% of your memory still unused.
My memory usage usually stays around 60-70% and my swap stays almost to 100% until I really start useing alot of memory.

Yeah,

I think you're right!

Thanks larkl,
I was having the same problem. Now my swap is working.
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