this may be kind of a shot in the dark, but check the maximum size of your swap file?
A utility such as this may help: http://windirstat.info/ Good luck, let us know what you find! On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:23 AM, dan moylan <[email protected]> wrote: > > last night, running ubuntu 11.04 on acer d255e, i got a > pop-up window advising me that i was running out of disk > space. sure enough, df told me that i was at 98% with less > that 1GB out of 40 available on /home. so i went to /home, > but du -s showed only 21GB in use. ??? i shut down and went > to bed puzzled. > > today, i fired up and df shows 21GB in use. > > it may not be related, but yesterday i was struggling with > some bizarre behaviour of mysql, which allowed me to enter > rows with indices 0 1 3 4 5 into a table, but steadfastly > refused to enter the row with index 2. today row 2 enters > fine. > > does anyone have any suggestions as to what i may be > experiencing? > > tia, > ole dan > > j. daniel moylan > 84 harvard ave > brookline, ma 02446-6202 > 617-232-2360 (tel) > 810-454-1823 (fax) > [email protected] > www.moylan.us > [death to html bloat!] > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
