I figured the less ram you had the more swap you'd need. or else what is swap for? isn't it to free space in ram? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Sesso wrote: > It looks fine to me. You only have 2G of ram so it's ok. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jul 15, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > > > > I think I made my swap partition too small. It is only 2 gig. This is > what free says: > > $ free > > total used free shared > buffers cached > > Mem: 1653812 1512472 141340 32440 156544 427816 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 928112 725700 > > Swap: 1638396 0 1638396 > > > > The only reason swap is at 0 usage is I just turned it back on ()I was > trying to modify things with gparted. I think I am going to need to use > gparted from a live disk. > > > > Here is what I'm thinking: > > > > first- here is what fdisk says: > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sda1 * 1 1530 12289693 83 Linux > > /dev/sda3 1530 6375 38917462 83 Linux > > /dev/sda2 6375 30402 192996877 5 Extended > > /dev/sda5 6375 6579 1638630 82 Linux swap > > /dev/sda6 6579 12953 51199155 83 Linux > > /dev/sda7 12953 23838 87433762 83 Linux > > /dev/sda8 23838 30402 52725330 83 Linux > > > > Now I think I'll shrink sda8 and put the new swap in that newly created > space. Afterwards I'll delete sda5 and grow sda6 to encompass the newly > freed space. > > What do you think..... am I wasting my time? > > about 15 minutes after first running free it now says: > > > > total used free > > Swap: 1638396 1404 1636992 > > > > I only have two things running on my xfce desktop. the terminal emulator > and chromium with three tabs open on it > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >