made swap too small

[Michael Havens]

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 <sesso at djsesso.com> 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 <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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~(-:
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