Unix systems, and other Unix-like operating systems, use the term "swap" to describe both the act of moving memory pages between RAM and disk, and the region of a disk the pages are stored on. In some of those systems, it is common to use a separate whole partition of a hard disk for swapping. These ...
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Use swap for hibernating only
I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed on an SSD with the swap partition on the same disk. Now I want to use the swap partition only for hibernating (not for swapping memory) because the SSD don't like the ...
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Does installing zRam have any advantages on a system without SWAP?
Running Ubutu 12.10 here, on an 128Gb SSD and a 4Gb ram system. Ever since I installed the OS I realised I dont need the swap partition, as I never use the hibernate function and rarely run out of ...
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Freeze during resume from disk (crypted swap)
I followed the tutorial EnableHibernateWithEncryptedSwap. I can suspend the system to disk via pm-hibernate to my crypted swap partition (which is big enough to hold the complete RAM). However, when I ...
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What is kswapd0 and why is it slowing my computer down to a halt? [duplicate]
On 13.04, I've noticed my computer slow down to a halt, where it won't respond even to moving the pointer, or to Ctrl+Alt+F1. If I wait it out (~30 minutes sometimes), it'll come back. If I can manage ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 boot time is 1 min 20 seconds!
I have a lenovo z370 notebook (i5...6GB RAM..750 GB HDD) and running Windows 7 dual boot with ubuntu 13.04.
The boot up is very slow and I have tried many things in this forum (for e.g disabling ...
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Swap Not available in system monitor
i make a swap partition with 5 GB but i notice always that it is marked as "not available" on the system monitor plus when i do operations consume the whole RAM ubuntu starts to kill to relief the RAM ...
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I need to increase swap space [duplicate]
I used the Windows installer to install Ubuntu. It did not ask me the size of swap. I am currently using Ubuntu and have only about 200 MB and my system crashes when I open too many applications.
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Mounting a pendrive as a swap partition, having problems
The building of one of the softwares I am installing is failing because of the error
c++: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1plus)
I think this is because I have only 500Mb swap ...
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cant boot due to encryption and hibernate
Recently I set up Ubuntu on my notebook (with an encrypted home partition) and had the glorious idea of enabling syspend-to-disk and suspend-to-ram, so i installed the package 'hibernate'.
Now I ...
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13.04 freezes after booting [duplicate]
so after this Ubuntu 13.04 random boot
which I haven't successfully solved I only made ubuntu crash on boot less with 304 nvidia drivers...
I had today 2 crashes after x server starts. The moment I ...
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How to set swap in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume if I have two swap partitons?
I have two swap partitions in fstab :
/dev/sda8 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0
/dev/sdb8 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0
How to set swap in ...
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ux31a freezes when running out of memory
I have difficulties to understand swap policy. I have installed system (ubuntu 13.04 but 12.10 had same issue) with 4gb of swap partition because ux31a has 4 gb of memory.
Problem is that every time ...
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Do we still need swap partitions on desktop?
I have read this question, but it was asked in the context of servers not desktops or notebooks.
If a good amount of RAM is installed on a notebook, say 8 GB, do we still need a swap space?
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Whats the recommended size of a SWAP partition? [duplicate]
Whats the recommended size of a SWAP partition?
Is it necessary to create it?
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ZRAM enabled but Swap in RAM not used
So I've just decided to enable zram on my 6 Gb ram Ubuntu 12.04, using zram-config.
It takes about 2.9 Gb of ram (after manually starting up the service, fixing this later...), but, even with ...
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the ram of the Ubuntu (maximum amount of RAM) and the swapping go to the maximum amount of swap [closed]
the ram of the Ubuntu (maximum amount of RAM) and the swapping go to the maximum amount of swap
kindly be informed that the sum of all used applications are less then the appear
i used release ...
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How to format a solid state disk as swap?
Disk Utility shows that I have a /dev/zram0 as solid state unpartioned, unused size 1Gb.
GParted does not see it at all. Benchmark from Disk Utility says 1.2 Gb/s and I like that.
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Is swap enabled on this server? should it be?
We have a sysadmin configure a couple of servers at digitalocean. To me, it looks like swap wasn't enabled on this but it's been a VERY long time since I've had to do things like this. It's a rails ...
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how to check if cache is working
is there a way to check if disk cache is working on a regular sata disk?
i see "asking for disk cache failed" error messages, but discovered my laptop has a 1gb solid state drive without a ...
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why I have 2 swap paritions?
I'm new in using Ubuntu,
I just installed ubuntu 12.10 and everytime I start up the pc, a message tell me that
the drive /dev/mapper/ubuntu-swap_1 is not ready yet or not present
.
This is my ...
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Why is swappiness=10 recommended?
A value of swappiness=10 is recommended in Ubuntu's SwapFaq.
Why is a value of 10 is recommended rather than swappiness=0?
Are there any pros of 10 or cons of zero?
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How to appear drive on windows if whole drive is selected as swap space?
I was installing ubuntu at time of drive selection i selected whole drive d as swap area and then i quit the installaton now it is not appearing in windows and even in try ubuntu button as came up on ...
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Is ecryptfs-setup-swap persistent?
I have what I think is a quick question: Is running ecryptfs-setup-swap on a system that didn't have home-directory or swap encryption enabled when it was installed persistent? The man page at ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Server SWAP not function
My office running Ubuntu 12.04 Server version for nfs setting. Its works well for the past 6 months. Until i did the update last week, then my swap no longer working.
I am running intel i7 processor ...
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Can't enlarge swap drive
Running Ubuntu 12.04 on a Toshiba Netbook.
Netbook has like .8 gigs of Ram so I'm trying to offset the crappy ram amount with a larger swap drive.
Tried to do it from a pretty detailed tutorial, was ...
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Installing Ubuntu 12.10 with encrypted root and swap on the same encrypted partition
I fire up the installation and select something else.
I can make an encrypted partition, but then I can't break it into two parts to hold a swap and root. What am I doing wrong and how can I change ...
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Linux: how swap is reported by free/top. How to determine correctly swap usage by process
Can somebody please explain how swap is reported in Linux?
I'm asking this because free and top commands reports some swap used that cannot be found in /proc/$PID/status.
grep --color VmSwap ...
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How can I restore the swap drive used by ubuntu, back to windows 7?
I just installed ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop (which has windows 7) but I used my second data drive as a swap for Ubuntu. How can I restore this swap drive back so it can be accessed by Windows 7 again?
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Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Init Process using all swap space and free memory
Mem: 16402220k total, 16165840k used, 236380k free, 132244k buffers
Swap: 4194296k total, 4191452k used, 2844k free, 1208664k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM ...
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How to install Ubuntu Server 12.04 amd64 on hardware raid 1 (2 ssd) without swap and boot partitions?
For example I read that it is possible to make swap and /boot partitions to be on /, so everything to be on one partition. In fact I don't need swap, cause I think my RAM is big enough 16GB. I'm ...
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Swap F keys to perform functions without Fn key
My laptop has a function key which turns F keys into keys which change volume or brightness. I would like to swap a number of them so that they perform that function under normal operation and are an ...
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Is swap memory required on a flash drive installation?
I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed on a 16gig flash drive without a swap partition. I heard from many users that skipping swap on installing Ubuntu on flash drives extends the speed and life of a flash ...
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I broke hibernate when I set two distros to use the same swap space
I use Ubuntu as my primary OS, but I have also installed Fedora to see what all the hype is about. I made the stupid decision of making them share swap space, not thinking of the consequences on ...
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Why swap is used when loads of memory is free? [duplicate]
I have 4GB of ram, and an 8GB swap partition available.
Sometimes I like to see how much memory is used at particular points. And I noticed, that sometimes there is small amounts of swap used ...
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Without having swap partition how to hibernate using only “SWAP FILE”
I found answer near to this question but not exact answer in Ubuntu-forums.I found answer to
1. How to create swap partition after installing Ubuntu.
2. How to create or add swap file to existing ...
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What event failed? As far as I can tell everything is mounted as expected and the system boots fine
At boot I get a message mountall: Event failed but everything seems to mount fine. With verbose output I see this:
/ is local
/proc is virtual
/sys is virtual
/sys/fs/fuse/connections is virtual
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Is it important which comes first ,root or swap partition on my external drive?
I am trying to creat root , swap and home partition in order to install ubuntu onto my external hard drive.I use the program called Gparted.
But some people say first section must be root ,other say ...
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Ubuntu DualBoot Installation Process - Resizing Partition
I decided to have Ubuntu to dualboot with Win7.
I have read couple of guides, and it seems that I still can't get this right.
ATM I have my laptop running the Ubuntu CD, I picked in installation type ...
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'hibernate' doesn't work on xubuntu 12.04
I've just installed Xubuntu on my laptop.
All works fine except that hibernating doesn't work.
I (successfully) resized the swap partition with GParted but it's still the same.
When restarting the ...
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Swap bug 100% Increase with two apps running?
Newly installed operating system, nothing download except updates.
Firefox currently downloading one file. SWAP at 0%
Then I open up Ubuntu software center.. Swap starts rising slowly and slowly . ...
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Swap Files slowing down games
I have a 16 GB Alienware M17X, and every time I try to play a game the game will run perfectly for a minute or so but then the game starts to lag.
Now I believe this is a swap file problem. So does ...
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I deleted swap partition, what more I should do?
Well I deleted my swap partition using gparted just because I needed one more primary partition and the swap was the 4th, that is the maximum number of primary partitions. I think I don't need it ...
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Swapping in but not out - why?
I have a server which is continuously swapping in, but not out. Ths is quite puzzling, since apparently there is enough memory for the processes.
This is a sample output of vmstat 1:
procs ...
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How do I setup an encrypted swap file?
When I installed Ubuntu, I setup an encrypted home partition. Now I have come to an issue where I am running out of memory because I haven't setup swap. How can I setup an encrypted swap file?
A ...
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What is swap and usage?
My question is what is swap? I am planning to install Ubuntu 12.10 version. I have 2.5 gigabytes of ram and want to use it all. How do I do the right way. I plan to use 500 gigabytes and a Sempron ...
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How to limit unattended-upgrades swap io usage
I have a daily spike in swap IO usage at the same that unattended-upgrades runs. Besides that time of day, swap IO is rarely used. I recently tried to uncomment these settings:
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Unable to resume from hibernation on boot- restarts instead of resuming
After fiddling around a lot with Rhythmbox and Banshee one day, I had to xkill them and logout a few times, and I think I remember seeing some error message asking for the keyring. I entered my ...
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PC is not detecting any boot drive. How to fix this?
I used gparted to shrink the swap space and add it to the drive that had Ubuntu installed in it from Live boot. After doing so, I restarted the computer and then found a black screen saying just this:
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Should swap and RAID-1 mix?
I have a box with a small RAID-1 array being used for swap space. I only did this since I was setting up mirrors for every other partition in the system.
Today I read this question and it prompted ...
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Change swap size after upgrade
I have just upgraded my cpu/mobo/RAM and I would like to now increase the swap size without having to reformat my entire drive. Is this possible? My hard drive set up is as follows.
mount
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