On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 04/05/12 15:16, Bret Busby wrote:
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I have just tried (repeatedly) to access whitepages.com.au, using
konqueror (one of the web browsers that I have kept allowing
Javascript), and, each time that I try to use the web site, it just
freezes
On 04/05/12 16:34, Bret Busby wrote:
On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 04/05/12 15:16, Bret Busby wrote:
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Works just as well in iceweasel 12.0.1 with NoScript fully enabled.
Ditto Konqueror 4.4.5
Hmm.
It does work in iceweasel 3.5.16, with Javascript disabled
, this swap
space is not used during runtime but only on suspend, so if there is
no need to suspend under heavy load (used swap usually indicates
heavy load on a desktop and I fail to imagine a reason why you’d like
to suspend a server…), swap the size of RAM is definitely enough.
Thank you
On Friday 04 May 2012 06:16:52 Bret Busby wrote:
It could simply be malicious web sites.
I have just tried (repeatedly) to access whitepages.com.au, using
konqueror (one of the web browsers that I have kept allowing
Javascript), and, each time that I try to use the web site, it just
freezes
is then available for regular swap
file activity.
This is - more or less - wrong. Suspend/Resume will consume at most
swap space corresponding to the used RAM (i. e. with compression and
dropping of buffers/caches, it can be far less). However, this swap
space is not used during runtime but only
less). However, this swap
space is not used during runtime but only on suspend, so if there is
If the swap space is available during normal usage, then it's entirely
possible to have no space to suspend to. This is why windows uses a
separate hibernation file (though Windows' memory management
actually used
my swap space was when some program went rampant and decided to
require more memory than available. During normal operation, my swap
space is seldomly used.
It'd be perfectly reasonable practice to have a separate swap
file/partition for hibernating to and swapon that before
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 17:27:42
From: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Swap space not used
On Mi, 02 mai 12, 15:48:30, Bret Busby wrote:
Hello.
I am running Debian 6.
When I installed it, I had
On Thu, 3 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 02/05/12 17:48, Bret Busby wrote:
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Why is this so?
JSM is that you?
:-)
Nope
:)
Is he still around?
fact there is *no* swap rule.
Swap is not required. Enable it if you wish - but it's not mandatory,
and it's usefulness is
On Fri, 4 May 2012 02:40:16 +0800 (WST), Bret Busby wrote:
free:
:~# free
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem: 80599647746808 313156 0 54708
1352976
-/+ buffers/cache:63391241720840
Swap: 42860340 66296
Hm, I've got 4 GB RAM and two swaps, 2.17GiB and 2.43GiB, one on each
HDD I'm using.
I'm doing resource-intensive work with my machine.
4 GB RAM are enough for my needs and I never noticed that a swap was
touched.
For my kind of usage Linux (Debian and several other distros) are able
to handle the
While this computer has 8GB of RAM, which is far greater than the total
hard drive capacities of most hard drives from twenty years ago
40MB (mega bytes!) SCSI drive for my Atari 520 ST here and 4MB RAM (I'm
a tinkerer ;) and it's not only running the Atari TOS, there's a 80286
hardware
On 04/05/12 00:34, Darac Marjal wrote:
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 09:48:59AM +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:
Hello Stephen,
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:
It is my understanding that,
assuming suspend/resume is supported, your swap partition
should be AT LEAST as large as TWICE the
On 04/05/12 04:54, Bret Busby wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 02/05/12 17:48, Bret Busby wrote:
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Why is this so?
JSM is that you? :-)
Nope
:)
Is he still around?
No (only in spirit). His son is though - and does excellent medical
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 01:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
While this computer has 8GB of RAM, which is far greater than the total
hard drive capacities of most hard drives from twenty years ago
I can't resist ... in the 80s and 90s we burned EPROMS with much less
capacity than an USB stick has
On Fri, 4 May 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
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When I installed it, I had a swap partition of about 40GB set up, as
is shown by gparted.
Did you chose this large swap or was it done automatically? My
installs / + /home have around 20 or 30 GB only. Of cause, for audio
productions I have
Rick Thomas wrote:
Another use for a large swap partition is if you want to put /tmp
into tmpfs.
Yes. The new trend for tmpfs /tmp partitions is going to require a
lot of thinking and rethinking for how much swap is required.
Or also swap is useful if you have an enterprise server and have
On 04/05/12 02:28, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 01:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
While this computer has 8GB of RAM, which is far greater than the total
hard drive capacities of most hard drives from twenty years ago
I can't resist ... in the 80s and 90s we burned EPROMS with
On 04/05/12 14:23, Bret Busby wrote:
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If some utility
existed that would display the source of an iso image, and the full
version number of the source iso image, it would be good.
# mount -o loop debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso /mnt
# cat /mnt/.disk/info
Debian GNU/Linux testing
On Fri, 4 May 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Hm, I've got 4 GB RAM and two swaps, 2.17GiB and 2.43GiB, one on each
HDD I'm using.
I'm doing resource-intensive work with my machine.
4 GB RAM are enough for my needs and I never noticed that a swap was
touched.
For my kind of usage Linux (Debian and
On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 04/05/12 04:54, Bret Busby wrote:
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Out of interest, with you saying that swapping is not mandatory,
from memory, about 20-odd years ago, when I started learning
(formally) about operating systems, we were told that UNIX has a
memory
On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 04/05/12 14:23, Bret Busby wrote:
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Perhaps, on installation, the creation of a file to store the original
information about the installation (iso image source, full version
number and date of version, etc), that could be retrieved
On 04/05/12 15:16, Bret Busby wrote:
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I have just tried (repeatedly) to access whitepages.com.au, using
konqueror (one of the web browsers that I have kept allowing
Javascript), and, each time that I try to use the web site, it just
freezes konqueror, requiring me to use the kill
On 04/05/12 15:30, Bret Busby wrote:
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And, Iceweasel (and it may have happened with the iceape browser; I am
not sure - have not used it for a couple of weeks, now, I think) has a
habit of leaving fragments of dialogue boxes on top of everything else
on the desktop, hiding parts of
Hello.
I am running Debian 6.
When I installed it, I had a swap partition of about 40GB set up, as is
shown by gparted.
But, for some strnge reason, Debian 6will not use the swap space, even
though gparted shows it to be Active.
Instead of Debian 6 using the swap[ partition, it just runs
Hi,
In article alpine.deb.2.00.1205021543070.14...@bret-dd-workstation.busby.net,
Bret Busbyb...@busby.net wrote:
When I installed it, I had a swap partition of about 40GB set up, as is
shown by gparted.
But, for some strnge reason, Debian 6will not use the swap space, even
On Wed, 2 May 2012 15:48:30 +0800 (WST)
Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote:
Hello.
I am running Debian 6.
When I installed it, I had a swap partition of about 40GB set up, as is
shown by gparted.
But, for some strnge reason, Debian 6will not use the swap space, even
though gparted
On Mi, 02 mai 12, 15:48:30, Bret Busby wrote:
Hello.
I am running Debian 6.
When I installed it, I had a swap partition of about 40GB set up, as
is shown by gparted.
four zero Gigabytes? My / + /home are only 27GB :)
But, for some strnge reason, Debian 6will not use the swap space,
On 02/05/12 09:00, Bret Busby wrote:
Hello.
I am running Debian 6.
When I installed it, I had a swap partition of about 40GB set up, as is
shown by gparted.
But, for some strnge reason, Debian 6will not use the swap space, even
though gparted shows it to be Active.
Instead of Debian 6 using
On Wednesday 02 May 2012 12:12:31 Sian Mountbatten wrote:
As a rule, your swap
partition should be the same size as your RAM.
We used to be taught it should be twice as big as your RAM - but even that
wouldn't get you to 40GB!! And, of course, that was in the days when RAM was
tiny by
Hello Lisi,
Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 02 May 2012 12:12:31 Sian Mountbatten wrote:
As a rule, your swap
partition should be the same size as your RAM.
We used to be taught it should be twice as big as your RAM - but even that
wouldn't get you to 40GB!! And, of
2012-05-02 13:12, Sian Mountbatten skrev:
Your swap partition is, very likely, too large. As a rule, your swap
partition should be the same size as your RAM. Do you have 40GB RAM?
Linux can handle well above 40 GB of swap. I would be surprised if swap
partition too large was the reason. My
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Johan Grönqvist
johan.gronqv...@gmail.comwrote:
2012-05-02 13:12, Sian Mountbatten skrev:
Your swap partition is, very likely, too large. As a rule, your swap
partition should be the same size as your RAM. Do you have 40GB RAM?
Linux can handle well above
Another use for a large swap partition is if you want to put /tmp into
tmpfs.
Whether doing so is a good thing(TM) is a religious debate that I
don't want to stir up here. But there are people who do it, and for
them a large swap partition can be useful.
Rick
PS: We haven't heard back
On 02/05/12 17:48, Bret Busby wrote:
Hello.
I am running Debian 6.
When I installed it, I had a swap partition of about 40GB set up, as is
shown by gparted.
But, for some strnge reason, Debian 6will not use the swap space,
even
though gparted shows it to be Active.
I don't believe
On Wed, 02 May 2012 07:12:31 -0400 (EDT), Sian Mountbatten wrote:
...
As a rule, your swap partition should be the same size as your RAM.
...
It is my understanding that,
assuming suspend/resume is supported, your swap partition
should be AT LEAST as large as TWICE the amount of RAM.
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