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Ubuntu 12.04 increase swap [duplicate]
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 and want to increase my swap size from 1Gb to 4Gb.
how can I do this?
/dev/sda5 partition 1046524 568284 -1
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How to Increase Swap Memory? [duplicate]
2 Months ago, I installed Ubuntu 12.04 in my PC. I never knew what was swap memory and I gave 1.5 GB for Swap Partition but I read in an Article for a PC with 2GB ram and 100GB+ Hard disk, We should ...
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How to resize swap (not just adding it) [duplicate]
I made Ubuntu 14.04 (64bit) in my VM and I gave it 350gb of my 1tb HDD space and I did it fixed (not dynamically allocated) and i did it as a VDI and in my settings I set it to read the space as a SSD....
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How can i increase size of swap file? [duplicate]
I'm new to Ubuntu . I need to increase size of swap file from 8 GB to 16 GB , how can i do it ? and is that in this file /etc/fstab ?
by command free -h
total used free ...
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How to add swap file to Ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]
I have at Ubuntu 12.04 swap size the same as my RAM - 1Gb.
I want to increase this a little bit, till 3Gb. Increase 2Gb of swap size.
I read SwapFaq but I can't understand how to keep having this ...
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How to increase swap size when there is already a partition existing [duplicate]
~$ sudo swapon --show gives me this
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/dev/sda5 partition 976M 0B -2
I want to increase my swap size. Is there a way to increase this or do I have to create a ...
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How can I make swap space? [duplicate]
I'm very new to Ubuntu, using 14.04. I need to make swap space, so I read, to overcome a garbage collector problem. My RAM is 8 GB, and my code is using big data and uses a lot of RAM.
What is swap ...
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How to add swap area? [duplicate]
This is the status of my system:
$ grep 'Swap' /proc/meminfo
SwapCached: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Please let me know how can I increase the swap area without re-installing.
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VMware Workstation recommends 2 GB of system swap space [duplicate]
When I start a virtual machine, it appears the following message:
The question is, how to increase the swap file?
I am using VMware® Workstation 15 Pro 15.0.2 build-10952284
This is the actual ...
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Can't hibernate (+ poor computer literacy) [duplicate]
When I try to hibernate my computer I receive 2 messages and computer turns off:
pnp_bus_resume+0x0/0X70 returns -19
PM: Device 00:08 failed to thaw error -19
Can something be done?
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How large should I make root, home, and swap partitions?
I have a laptop with win7 installed. I have now made a 60gb partition which I want to install ubuntu into. The question I have, before I do the installation, is how large each of the root, swap, and ...
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Touchpad not working after suspending laptop
This seems like a common problem, but after trying all of the fixes I've found on forums, I'm still at a loss.
Specs:
computer: Asus k501LX-EB71
OS: Ubuntu 14.04.3
kernel: 3.19.0-26-generic
touchpad:...
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Repairing broken installation from Live USB without losing data
I recently broke my installation and I've tried in vain to repair it using apt-get and all his friends. Now I'm trying the live USB and I'm not sure how to continue. And I desperately don't want to ...
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Apps crash randomly on newly installed ubuntu 22.04
I've just installed Ubuntu 22.04 on my laptop with 8GB ram (no dual boot, ext4 + 20GB linux swap);
Installed 2 gnome shell extensions (Dash to panel, Workspace Matrix);
My working environment is just ...
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How to Increase Ubuntu's Virtual Memory and/or Swap for Matlab?
Situation: fix Out of Memory errors in Ubuntu's Matlab
Goal: allocate some virtual memory and/or Swap on external HDD/SSD; the read/write decrease from 20 GBps to 0.1 GBps, which is ok!
Terminology: ...
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