[ubuntu-za] Swap space

[Frans de waal]

Yes you can checkout hiw to make a swap file in linux... Basics is to
create an bkank disk image with dd, format as swap and mount as swap, you
can have as many of these files as you want, no partitioning needed

On 28 Oct 2017 19:22, "Bill Cairns" <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have just discovered that my drive is very poorly partitioned. The
> results of lssblk -
>
> bill at Zita:~$ sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL
> [sudo] password for bill:
> NAME   FSTYPE     SIZE MOUNTPOINT               LABEL
> sda             931.5G
> ├─sda1 ext4      18.6G /
> ├─sda2              1K
> ├─sda5 swap        94M [SWAP]
> └─sda6 ext4     912.8G /home
>
> (I can only assume that, way back when, I decided on 10 Gigs for my swap
> partition and finger problems meant that gave it 9 Megs instead!)
>
> I obviously seldom need any swap space, but I have been troubled when I do
> a lot of image editing that I seem to run out of disk space. I suspect that
> all my editing programs (and I use Gimp, Digikam, and Gthumb at different
> times) have similar problems and don't free up disk space when they have
> finished editing an image. If I watch memory usage using System Monitor, I
> can see memory vanishing slowly. If I allow this situation to continue too
> long, my system suddenly freezes up and (I assume) it is valiantly trying
> to swap something out to that 94 Meg partition.
>
> I have 8 Gigs of RAM.
>
> So I wonder if anyone can help me?
>
> 1. Are these assumptions correct or possible correct?
> 2. How much swap space should I have? (I sort of feel that  I shouldn't
> need any, but assuming that these image editing programs really do share
> the same problem of memory leakage, should I at least make provision for
> them?
> 3. I would really like to install 18.04 before tackling this problem by
> redoing the partitions (and I have this dream of a small SSD for the OS
> ...) Is there an interim solution that someone can suggest?
>
> Thanks for your time,
>   Bill
>
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