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Memory is getting raped and 2gb of swap 0% in use

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SonoraSamurai

Friendly Raider

PostPosted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:41 pm


I've had this problem a while ago when i was experimenting with Slackware. I used a partition to boot a Slackware DVD and after slack finished installing I rebooted my computer and I could actually hear my computer processing everything in a high pitched audible beep.
Then I did the Same thing with an openSUSE 11.0 DVD and the processor wasn't getting raped, but it hung while shutting down the computer.
Now, I have been running on Kubuntu 8.10 ((((OMG MY SWAP JUST STARTED WORKING!!!!! THANX SYSTEM MONITER, FOR TELLING ME!... )))) and everything was running fine untill i tried the same partition live cd with Ubuntu 8.10, I just can't stay away from Gnome, and it did the same thing just up untill i just told you it started working. I'm just wondering is it possibly an internal thing or and OS thing?

edit: ok so I rebooted my system and its still beeping and the swap is not in use again... movies run blotchy and its unbearable.... but that my computer for you
PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:05 pm


It could just be a Ubuntu issue because I don't have this problem with both openSUSE 11.0 and 11.1 beta 2. They both use 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 kernel and no swap problem.

vendion Gear
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SonoraSamurai

Friendly Raider

PostPosted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:34 am


mine has the same kernel but for some reason when i use the installation from hdd sometimes it just wants to not unmount my ram or some crap. i think im just gonna burn cd's for a while. But its not limited to Ubuntu because it happened to me on slackware as well
PostPosted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:16 pm


Why would it want to unmount your ramdisk? The only thing outside of the kernel that would cause your swap to not be used is a bad partition. Maybe remake your swap and see if that doesn't help.

vendion Gear
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SonoraSamurai

Friendly Raider

PostPosted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:33 pm


as in the live CD based on another partition... i set my grub as such

title blah blah
root (hd0,4)
kernel /casper/vmlinuz boot=casper root=/dev/ram rw
initrd /casper/initrid

and then i booted from that partition into a live cd thats on my harddisk

i remade my swap before but it didnt work all that well
PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:52 pm


I figured it out!!! It was a problem with my power hookup.... I unplugged it from the back and plugged it in again and now everything is working phenomenally. Thanks vendion for the suggestions though.

SonoraSamurai

Friendly Raider

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