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eltone:
--- Quote from: tinypoodle on March 18, 2013, 04:31:25 AM ---Also, do you have any swap activated at boot time?
If not, then such might potentially ease the situation.
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Greetings tinypoodle!
I can't say for sure if there is any 'swap' activated at boot time. All I have done for the Linux swap file, is have Gparted create a 256 MB space on the thumb drive.
Q: What is a bare minimum amount of 'swap' and what is the syntax to activate it at boot time?
If this is the root cause, it has got to be nipped in the bud!
thanks,
eltone
gerald_clark:
Unless you have the 'nozswap' boot option, RAM will be used for compressed swap.
All mkswap formatted partitions found will automatically be activated.
Thumb drives make poor swap devices.
eltone:
--- Quote from: gerald_clark on March 18, 2013, 01:28:38 PM ---Unless you have the 'nozswap' boot option, RAM will be used for compressed swap.
All mkswap formatted partitions found will automatically be activated.
Thumb drives make poor swap devices.
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Hi gerald_clark,
Up to now, default boot options have been used.
Q: Selecting the fast, compressed swap, in RAM, is accomplished using which boot option?
thanks,
eltone
gerald_clark:
It is enabled by default. You must use the noted option to turn it off.
tinypoodle:
--- Quote from: eltone on March 18, 2013, 12:47:56 PM ---I can't say for sure if there is any 'swap' activated at boot time. All I have done for the Linux swap file, is have Gparted create a 256 MB space on the thumb drive.
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This sounds confusing...
gparted could be used to create swap partitions but hardly would get involved to create swap files.
If you search the web, there is a gazillion of tutorials how to create and manage swap space under Linux ;)
Particular to core is that swap partitions get auto scanned for at boot, while a swap file should be named "tc.swp" in combination with boot code:
--- Code: ---swapfile{=hda1} Scan or Specify swapfile
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--- Quote ---Q: What is a bare minimum amount of 'swap' and what is the syntax to activate it at boot time?
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The bare minimum depends entirely on needs created by particular usage, you should rather ask yourself what is the bare minimum of extensions to be loaded onboot.
Should you ever want to hibernate, then there will be a minimum of swap space, but even the size for that is usage dependent.
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