With 768 meg or RAM, you'll be hard pushed to use any swap at all I'd have thought!
Before you go off fidling with partitions, I'd fire up your installation disk in windows and use RAWWRITE to dump the MEMTEST image to a floppy disk. Reboot with the floppy in and MEMTEST will boot automatically. Let it test your memory (it'll take a while with 768 meg!). Make sure you don't have some flaky memory - it could cause the problem you are describing. As for seeing all of you memory in Use under Linux, this is perfectly normal, and it a GOOD thing - Linux uses as much memory as it can to cache stuff, to improve response time. Unused memory is wasted memory in Unix parlance. If any programs request memory which is being used for buffering or cache, then it will be released by the kernel and given to the requsting task. I suspect you'll find that more swap has no effect on your "lock-up's" but by all means try - it's always good experience, providing you don't lose anything! > -----Original Message----- > From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 1:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] resizing partitions > > Well, I am having a problem with it locking up, and I want to make sure it > is > not something in the original config. Using the old train of thought I > configured a 128mg swap. I have 768mg real memory. If I do a 'free -m' I > will > see very little use of the swap (1-8megs) but real stays close to 750mg, > as > the system aproches 768 the swap does not increase, but if I go over 768 > everything locks up. So I figure the first thing I need to do is bring > the > swap up to what everyone is recomending, I have a 40gig and and a 60gig > drive > in the box, so there is no reason why I should not at least try the > 'double > the ram idea'. > > Actually I was hoping that diskdrake would acomplish this because I was > able > to resize my son's windoze partition when he wanted to play with linux and > I > installed mandrake. Funny, this is the first time I have found a linux > tool > that will do to windoze what it won't do for itself <GRIN>. > > John > > On Saturday 26 January 2002 18:23, you wrote: > > I believe GnuPartEd can non-destructively resize partitions, but make > sure > > you have any important data backed up first, just in case. > > > > What makes you think you need to resize your swap partition anyway? Does > > your machine come close to utilising all of your existing swap space > now? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 10:49 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [newbie] resizing partitions > > > > Hello, > > After following the swap partition thread, I have realized that I > > should > > increase my swap partition, how can I do this without distroying > > data? I do > > not want to use partition magic. > > > > TIA, > > John > > << File: message.footer >> > > > > > > ********************************************************************** > > This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named > > recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email > > the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or > > take/retain/distribute any copies. > > ********************************************************************** > > > > > > Norwich Union Life & Pensions Limited > > Registered Office 2 Rougier Street > > York YO90 1UU > > Registered in England Number 3253947 > > A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group > > which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. > > Member of the Association of British Insurers. > > > > For further Enquires 01603 622200 > << File: message.footer >> ********************************************************************** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ********************************************************************** Norwich Union Life & Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200
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