On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:23:42PM -0800, David Guntner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> While still trying to figure out why Thunderbird isn't working so well
> with Dovecot, I figured I'd move onto another mystery; thought I'd seek
> out some opinions here. :-)
>
> When setting up Linux systems, I've alway
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:23:42PM -0800, David Guntner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> While still trying to figure out why Thunderbird isn't working so well
> with Dovecot, I figured I'd move onto another mystery; thought I'd seek
> out some opinions here. :-)
>
> When setting up Linux systems, I've alway
Hello David,
David Guntner wrote:
> swap *file* instead.
>
> So, anyone? Pros & cons? Is there any reason to prefer one over the other?
Are you sure you need swap at all? If so, will your server still
deliver acceptable performance if it is actively swapping? If yes,
then the performance of t
Pretty sure the partition is far more common. The file version is
there if you need it, but hopefully you don't. Having the pages sit in
a file on top of a filesystem just adds some extra layers, probably
decreases performance a bit, AFAIK
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:23 PM, David Guntner wrote:
>
Klaus Jantzen wrote:
Hello,
on my machine I have two HDDs with Windows, Debian and another Linux
system.
Because of the two Linux systems I have two swap partitions.
As I want to remove the other Linux I want to get rid of one of the
swap partitions.
How can I find out which swap partition i
Hi guys,
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen
wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 01:07:28PM +, Klaus Jantzen wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > on my machine I have two HDDs with Windows, Debian and another Linux
> system.
> > Because of the two Linux systems I have two swap partitions.
>
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 01:07:28PM +, Klaus Jantzen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> on my machine I have two HDDs with Windows, Debian and another Linux system.
> Because of the two Linux systems I have two swap partitions.
>
> As I want to remove the other Linux I want to get rid of one of the swap
> p
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Klaus Jantzen wrote:
>
> on my machine I have two HDDs with Windows, Debian and another Linux system.
> Because of the two Linux systems I have two swap partitions.
>
> As I want to remove the other Linux I want to get rid of one of the swap
> partitions.
> How can
> * From: ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I have a 1Gb primary swap partition (/dev/sda1)
>and fdisk -l shows that.
fdisk read the partition table from the disk, but the kernel data can be
seen in /proc/partitions (it is read at boot time)
> # swapon /dev/sda1
>says that ..:/dev/sda1: is i
ISHWAR RATTAN:
>
> I have a 1Gb primary swap partition (/dev/sda1)
> and fdisk -l shows that. But the command
>
> # swapon /dev/sda1
>
> says that ..:/dev/sda1: is invalid argument.
Did you create a "swap filesystem" on the partition?
# mkswap /dev/sda1 && swapon -a
J.
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On 05/05/08 08:17, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote:
>
> I have a 1Gb primary swap partition (/dev/sda1)
> and fdisk -l shows that. But the command
>
> # swapon /dev/sda1
>
> says that ..:/dev/sda1: is invalid argument.
> I made an entry in /etc/fstab (too):
>
> "Paul" == Paul A Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Paul> 1: I've booted from disk (CD) 1 and 2: both state they are
Paul> recovery disk/boots... but then allow you to go into the
Paul> installation applet.
The Debian installation disks/CDs also double as recovery CDs. You can
use it to ins
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001, Paul A. Thomas wrote:
> I've two questions tonight which seem simple but not... straight
> forward.
Hi Paul,
> I downloaded three ISO images and burned them to CD's.
>
> 1: I've booted from disk (CD) 1 and 2: both state they are recovery
> disk/boots...
> but then allow yo
Many thanks to Jeff and Matthew for the advice on
my swap dilemma.
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Jeff Green wrote:
> Find someone who owns a copy of pq-magic. The DOS version will run from
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> (this will give you a file 4Mb large, containing all 0's, in the ro
I use a bootable partition magic diskette to move partitions
around.works flawlessly. Let me know if you want the disks
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From: "Tony Laszlo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 12:58 AM
Subject: swap partition too small
> In trying to conserve t
Tony Laszlo wrote:
>
> In trying to conserve the little hard disk space
> (110M) that I have, I have unfortunately made the
> swap partition too small when installing Debian. I
> know I should probably pay penance and do the install
> all over again, but am wondering if there is a way to
> carve o
Find someone who owns a copy of pq-magic. The DOS version will run from
a very simple dos boot floopy (and the CD helps you make the right
disks) and will resize linux partions very simply.
Jeff
Tony Laszlo wrote:
>
> In trying to conserve the little hard disk space
> (110M) that I have, I have u
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From: Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 8:23 AM
Subject: swap partition
Hi
> What is the max size of a swap partition under the 2.2
> and 2.3/2.4 kernels. I know that the 2.0 kernels were
> limited to 128 (or 127?)mb, but you coul
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:53:21PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> What is the max size of a swap partition under the 2.2
> and 2.3/2.4 kernels. I know that the 2.0 kernels were
> limited to 128 (or 127?)mb, but you could have several
> of them. Did this change in 2.2-2.4?
RTM: /usr/src/linux/Do
On 30/10/99 John Miskinis wrote:
I am hoping that there are some sites out there that will explain
how to create a minimum barebones system. I have created what I
believe are the essential devices, and am using the simple
/etc/inittab and /etc/rc from the howto. The system hangs after
mounting
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I used to have a 16MB swap partition on hda2 but i deleted it and added a
> bigger partition using fdisk which has now become hda5.
>
> The problem is that when i shut down the system... it comes up with a
> prompt deactivating swap...cann
*- On 2 Sep, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Swap partition"
> Hi all
>
> I used to have a 16MB swap partition on hda2 but i deleted it and added a
> bigger partition using fdisk which has now become hda5.
>
> The problem is that when i shut down the system... it comes up with a
> prompt deactiva
On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I used to have a 16MB swap partition on hda2 but i deleted it and added a
> bigger partition using fdisk which has now become hda5.
>
> The problem is that when i shut down the system... it comes up with a
> prompt deactivating swap...cannot find hda
On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Leon Castellanos wrote:
> I installed SOLARIS x86 2.5.1 and the identification number for the solaris
> UFS partition is the same as the Linux Swap!
>
> My question is if it is possible to make the SWAP partition on another HD
> so that it doesn't conflict with the SOLARIS o
> Over the last couple of days, I have been noticing that I have been
> getting "Out of Memory" errors that I never got before.
>
> I just looked at my free output and it showed 18M of swap used, after
> running "swapoff /dev/hda3" and then "swapon /dev/hda3", it showed 10M
> used. I also have a
Hmm...you might also want to start making a swapfile and see
if you use it. (they're easy and convenient, and if you never [rarely]
swap, there's no performance hit).
Running 16 Mbytes with X and software development will cause swap, figure
about 16 Mbytes
of swap.
If you have space on your s
> My simple formula
> swap needed = total memory need - physical memory size
> works much better than the "twice physical memory" one.
Questionable. Aside from not being computable (everyone can easily
tell what their physical memory size is, but few people know how much
their "to
Gerry Jensen:
> While it may be untrue that you *need* twice the physical memory size, I
> believe it's true that twice the physical memory size is about the limit
> of what you can effectively use if you need it.
It depends on what you do.
Operating system theory has a concept called "working se
Hi all,
I might not be a UNIX (Linux) guru yet (if ever), but I do know a thing or
two about OS handling.
As someone (sorry I dumped the mail so I can't use your name) pointed out
correctly:
Swap partition=Total memory requirements - Available memory
Now if anyone can tell me the correct val
> > I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would
> > still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition.
>
> The terse form of the formula is:
>
> swap needed = total memory need - physical memory size
>
> (Forget everything about "twice physical
In reply to Lars Wirzenius's message:
> A R Abid:
> > I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would
> > still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition.
>
> The terse form of the formula is:
>
> swap needed = total memory need - physical memory size
>
Hi --
You said:
> Currently, I have a DOS partition that takes up 25% of the
> total disk space and the rest is empty. My concern was if I would lose
> any data on the DOS partition if I create two Linux partitions using
> Linux fdisk on the empty disk space.
I suppose the installation notes are
Boris Beletsky:
> YES! u always need a swap - no metter how much ram u have.
> I would say, create a 32swap part. - that would be the best.
If you never use more than 16 MB of memory, and you have 512 MB
of physical memory, you most definitely do not need swap.
swap needed = total memory
On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, A R Abid wrote:
[SNIP]
> My question is if it is a POSSIBILITY or a CERTAINTY to lose your
> existing DOS partition if you don't mess up w/ it and only make Linux
> partitions on the empty diskspace. Thanks.
It is a possibility. I've done it a dozen times without losing the
A R Abid:
> I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would
> still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition.
The terse form of the formula is:
swap needed = total memory need - physical memory size
(Forget everything about "twice physical siz
A R Abid ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would
: still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition.
If you want to run X and some apps I highly recommend
that you use some swap space (at least 32MB). How much you really need
de
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On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, A R Abid wrote:
aa2g+>I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would
aa2g+>still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition.
YES! u always need a swap - no metter how much ram u have.
I would say, create a
or a CERTAINTY to lose your
existing DOS partition if you don't mess up w/ it and only make Linux
partitions on the empty diskspace. Thanks.
A. R. ABID
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Excerpts from mail: 18-Sep-96 RE: Swap partition and fdisk by Rik
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 'it's the only way t
Hi --
You asked:
> I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would
> still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition.
If you will be using memory-hungry applications (like X or httpd), then
you'll definitely need some swap space. A few tens of MBytes would be
a
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From: A R Abid[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 1996 3:45 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:Swap partition and fdisk
I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would
still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap
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