Screen Freeze on F7

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Tue Jul 24 19:11:00 UTC 2007


Alan M. Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 12:34 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>> Alan M. Evans wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 09:24 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>> Mem:    482776k total,   475472k used,     7304k free,    29076k buffers
>>>> Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,   163588k cached
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> This means it was using the swap partition on the hard drive.
>>> What swap partition? Your system doesn't have any swap(?!?).
>>>
>>> Your memory usage is almost completely saturated and you have *NO* swap
>>> to fall back on. If it hasn't already then you're kernel freemem killer
>>> is very soon going to start cutting the legs from beneath random
>>> programs all over your process list.
>>>
>>>
>> 	Alan please explain why 163588k cached Swap drive is not enough?
> 
> That cached amount is from your used Mem. You have *no* swap: 0k total.
> 
> 
Bad fstab and now I have swap space.

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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