On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Knute Johnson <ubuntu@knutejohnson.com> wrote:
> I just installed 10.10 desktop and I'm not sure if I got a swap partition.
> *Should I have a swap partition? *How do I tell for sure whether I do?
>
Run 'df.'
Whether or not you "should" have a swap partition depends on how much
memory you have and how much disk accessing your system does on a
regular basis.
Technically, even if you "need" swap space, you can create a swap file
if there's no partition.
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03-09-2011, 06:44 PM
Knute Johnson
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On 03/09/2011 11:43 AM, Karl Larsen wrote:
On 03/09/2011 12:38 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
I just installed 10.10 desktop and I'm not sure if I got a swap
partition. Should I have a swap partition? How do I tell for sure
whether I do?
Thanks,
Tell us how much RAM you have.
73 Karl
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03-09-2011, 06:51 PM
Knute Johnson
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On 03/09/2011 11:43 AM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Knute Johnson<ubuntu@knutejohnson.com> wrote:
I just installed 10.10 desktop and I'm not sure if I got a swap partition.
Should I have a swap partition? How do I tell for sure whether I do?
Run 'df.'
Whether or not you "should" have a swap partition depends on how much
memory you have and how much disk accessing your system does on a
regular basis.
Technically, even if you "need" swap space, you can create a swap file
if there's no partition.
I usually install Xubuntu and I've always ended up with a swap partition.
I don't remember for sure but I thought it showed up in the df output
before.
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03-09-2011, 06:52 PM
Lucio M Nicolosi
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On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:43 PM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Knute Johnson <ubuntu@knutejohnson.com> wrote:
>> I just installed 10.10 desktop and I'm not sure if I got a swap partition.
>> *Should I have a swap partition? *How do I tell for sure whether I do?
>>
> Run 'df.'
>
> Whether or not you "should" have a swap partition depends on how much
> memory you have and how much disk accessing your system does on a
> regular basis.
>
> Technically, even if you "need" swap space, you can create a swap file
> if there's no partition.
" df. " is not right.
"df" in my system doesn't show swap.
Perhaps you should try "swapon -s"
It will display a swap partition if it exists.
L.
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03-09-2011, 06:59 PM
Knute Johnson
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On 03/09/2011 11:52 AM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:43 PM, MR ZenWiz<mrzenwiz@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Knute
Johnson<ubuntu@knutejohnson.com> wrote:
I just installed 10.10 desktop and I'm not sure if I got a swap
partition. Should I have a swap partition? How do I tell for
sure whether I do?
Run 'df.'
Whether or not you "should" have a swap partition depends on how
much memory you have and how much disk accessing your system does
on a regular basis.
Technically, even if you "need" swap space, you can create a swap
file if there's no partition.
" df. " is not right.
"df" in my system doesn't show swap.
Perhaps you should try "swapon -s"
It will display a swap partition if it exists.
L.
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sdb5 partition 3068924 0 -1
It doesn't format well but seems to say there is a partition number 5
that is swap?
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03-09-2011, 07:06 PM
Tom H
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On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Knute Johnson <ubuntu@knutejohnson.com> wrote:
> On 03/09/2011 11:52 AM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps you should try "swapon -s"
>
> Filename * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Type * * * * * *Size * *Used
> *Priority
> /dev/sdb5 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * partition * * * 3068924 0 * * * -1
>
> It doesn't format well but seems to say there is a partition number 5 that
> is swap?
That's more or less the Ubuntu default:
"/" on sda1
swap on sda5 (with sda2 as an extended partition)
In your case, it's sdb.
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03-09-2011, 07:09 PM
David Curtis
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On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Knute Johnson <ubuntu@knutejohnson.com> wrote:
I just installed 10.10 desktop and I'm not sure if I got a swap partition. *Should I have a swap partition? *How do I tell for sure whether I do?
Swap is always recommended as linux optimises RAM use with it, regardless of how much RAM you have.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq
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03-09-2011, 07:36 PM
MR ZenWiz
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On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:09 PM, David Curtis <dave.c.curtis@gmail.com> wrote:
:
>
> Swap is always recommended as linux optimises RAM use with it, regardless of
> how much RAM you have.
>
Swap space is used for anonymous memory (i.e., that which does not
already map to a file) when the system needs more than you have. If
you never use more memory than you have physically available,
technically you do not need swap space. If you have 32GB of memory
and never use more than 4GB of it (and you don't hibernate your
machine), you do not need swap space.
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq
>
Interesting article about what swap is used for, but I didn't see any
blanket "always" recommendation for swap there.
However, I agree that a swap space (partition or file) at least the
same size as memory is good, double better. It really depends on how
you use memory (and disk) and how much you have, as I said up front.
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03-09-2011, 07:51 PM
"Pongo A. Pan"
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On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 15:06 -0500, Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Knute Johnson <ubuntu@knutejohnson.com> wrote:
> > On 03/09/2011 11:52 AM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> >>
> >> Perhaps you should try "swapon -s"
> >
> > Filename Type Size Used
> > Priority
> > /dev/sdb5 partition 3068924 0 -1
> >
> > It doesn't format well but seems to say there is a partition number 5 that
> > is swap?
>
> That's more or less the Ubuntu default:
>
> "/" on sda1
> swap on sda5 (with sda2 as an extended partition)
>
> In your case, it's sdb.
>
Perhaps the OP should also try "sudo parted --list" in a terminal. I
forget if parted is installed by default in 10.10. It seems to be in
natty.
pongo@seneca:~$ sudo parted --list
[sudo] password for pongo:
Model: ATA ST31000333AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
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