Darac Marjal wrote:
> A swap partition is not subject to the controls of a file system. That
> is, it can't get fragmented, it can be positioned at the fast (or slow)
> end of a disk, it can be (as you suggest) placed on a completely
> separate device. It can be shared between dual-booting Linux
Hi,
On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 02:58:00PM +, GiaThnYgeia wrote:
> 1 What is the difference functionally of having a swap partition from
> having a swap file? Is it that you can use a separate physical disk
> that will take the wear and tear of swaping?
As long as the filesystem can support
On 09/04/17 15:58, GiaThnYgeia wrote:
> A while ago while Thomas Schmitt was helping me with dd and xorriso in
> backing up systems and partitions into usb and back the issue of not
> having a swap partition in my system came up, since I chose not to
> during the installation, and how to create o
A while ago while Thomas Schmitt was helping me with dd and xorriso in
backing up systems and partitions into usb and back the issue of not
having a swap partition in my system came up, since I chose not to
during the installation, and how to create one, lead me into a search of
doing just that.
I
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Christofer C. Bell wrote:
>
> That depends upon the Linux kernel setting of vm.overcommit_memory. I
> have ranted about this on a number of occasions. But the Linux kernel
> default is to overcommit. In which case swap is not used in the
> tr
Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> I'd ask you to keep in mind that even "unused swap" (meaning, you do
> not expect the system to need to swap) is still useful and valuable.
Agreed.
> Sometimes processes ask for more memory than is available in the
> system. The kernel will not allow the process to ru
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:55 AM, ML mail wrote:
> That's good news, I didn't see that option in the Debian sample preseed
> config files. So as you recommended I checked the partman-basicfilesystems
> package from Ubuntu and found the template which does that. Now added the
> following to my de
ms/no_swap boolean false
and am going to test it right now :)
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From: Brian
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation
On Fri 24 Aug 2012 at 05:22:01 -0700, ML mail wrot
On Fri 24 Aug 2012 at 05:22:01 -0700, ML mail wrote:
> I am currently creating a preseed file to get my server installed
> automatically over the network with PXE boot. This server will have no
> swap space but I have the problem that if I do not specify a swap
> space in my preseed c
Hi,
I am currently creating a preseed file to get my server installed automatically
over the network with PXE boot. This server will have no swap space but I have
the problem that if I do not specify a swap space in my preseed configuration
file the automated Debian installation stops and
.
> this (always have used guided partitioning before), I set one logical
> partition the size of the entire 14 GB free space - no swap partition, as I
> couldn't see where to add that in via the partition options during
> installation. Installation went great, linux runs perfectl
Thanks for the help!
Mark
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <
b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> In <631fe46c0907271429n387f32bp42606b1755eae...@mail.gmail.com>, Mark
> wrote:
> >I like this idea of using a swap file instead of partition (for both my
> >Debian and Ubuntu mach
In <631fe46c0907271429n387f32bp42606b1755eae...@mail.gmail.com>, Mark wrote:
>I like this idea of using a swap file instead of partition (for both my
>Debian and Ubuntu machines). Is the following code correct for creating
> the swap file (assuming 1 GB swap file size)?
>
># dd if=/dev/zero of=/sw
I like this idea of using a swap file instead of partition (for both my
Debian and Ubuntu machines). Is the following code correct for creating the
swap file (assuming 1 GB swap file size)?
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=65536
And would the correct use of mkswap be:
# mkswap /swap
Mark:
>
> Question 1: In the Debian manual it says a swap partition isn't needed but
> recommended for efficiency. Anyone else installed without swap and had
> success? Is my installation a ticking time bomb if I don't have a swap
> partition?
I ran my previous laptop with 768MB of RAM for seve
In <631fe46c0907271347g341e048udf74d5ee643e1...@mail.gmail.com>, Mark wrote:
>A couple of questions (background is below the questions if you want to
>read):
>
>Question 1: In the Debian manual it says a swap partition isn't needed but
>recommended for efficiency. Anyone else installed without swa
on options). So on the second installation (after deleting all
linux partitions and blanking with zeros), again had 14 GB free space but
this time I manually set up the partitions. Not being very experienced at
this (always have used guided partitioning before), I set one logical
partition the size
Whether or not it is used, the output of "top" or "free" should show how
much swap is available.
Hear hear.
Did the incantation work?
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On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:32:16AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:15:03PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> > Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> >
> > > top - 20:35:11 up 58 min, 3 users, load average: 0.28, 0.18, 0.11
> > > Tasks: 91 total, 1 running, 89 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zom
On Tuesday, 04.10.2005 at 08:32 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> How much RAM do you have? I don't think Linux uses swap until RAM
> starts to run out. I have a gigabyte (should I say Gigibyte these
> days?) of RAM, and as far as I know, I've *never* used swap.
Some interesting points about swap he
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:15:03PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Curtis Vaughan wrote:
>
> > Can someone help me figure out why I don't seem to be using the swap
> > partition.
> >
> > Here is an output of fdisk -l
> >
> > Disk /dev/hda: 10.0 GB, 10056130560 bytes
> > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19485
Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> Can someone help me figure out why I don't seem to be using the swap
> partition.
>
> Here is an output of fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 10.0 GB, 10056130560 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19485 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
>
>Device Boo
Can someone help me figure out why I don't seem to be using the swap
partition.
Here is an output of fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 10.0 GB, 10056130560 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19485 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks
or more specific swap information see
swapon -s
(as root). It should list any active swap partitions and their size,
priority, and current usage. See swapon(8) for details.
Also see another thread on this list from about 10 days ago titled "no
swap" for an example of using a swapfile, in
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:22:34AM -0700, G.LeeJ wrote:
| Does debian use a swap file I assume so..if not well forget this but
Not a "file" but a partition. It only uses one if you created one (a
good idea!) when you installed (or if you added one later on).
| if so somehow mine went south!.
Does debian use a swap file I assume so..if not well forget this but
if so somehow mine went south!... gnome system info shows 0 swap for
itself and used etc.
reason asking is sometimes my system'HD grinds endlessly away at
something..when its done it and i've had system monitor runnin
"G.LeeJ" wrote:
>
> huh?..all of a sudden I see I have NO swap file..at least according
> to my gnonme system info menu option..
>
> I know I have a swap partition..or used to or so I thought one was
> created when I installed progeny?...but according to /
huh?..all of a sudden I see I have NO swap file..at least according
to my gnonme system info menu option..
I know I have a swap partition..or used to or so I thought one was
created when I installed progeny?...but according to /proc/partitions
its only 1 block long
thanks
lee
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