Comments on: Did I break my Ubuntu System? http://erik.weibust.net/2007/11/14/did-i-break-my-ubuntu-system/ random crap from the mouth of erik weibust Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:08:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Erik Weibust http://erik.weibust.net/2007/11/14/did-i-break-my-ubuntu-system/#comment-3382 Erik Weibust Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:08:37 +0000 http://erik.weibust.net/2007/11/14/did-i-break-my-ubuntu-system/#comment-3382 Thanks Josiah... Come to find out that the problem is a bug with the Ubuntu upgrade process breaking my swap space. I'll post more details shortly. Thanks Josiah…

Come to find out that the problem is a bug with the Ubuntu upgrade process breaking my swap space. I’ll post more details shortly.

]]> By: Josiah http://erik.weibust.net/2007/11/14/did-i-break-my-ubuntu-system/#comment-3381 Josiah Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:42:07 +0000 http://erik.weibust.net/2007/11/14/did-i-break-my-ubuntu-system/#comment-3381 First, thanks for your comment on my blog. I had all the announcements turned off so I didn't see it until just now. :-) You can rebuild your swap with mkswap and then make sure it on w/ swapon. Don't listen to the guy at the ubuntu forums about heavy memory usage. A linux system traditionally expands into the RAM available. It is normal. He also speaks of your system being at idle. That's hard to support since your load averages are at 0.24, 0.44, and 0.69. I suppose I'd argue that any desktop machine isn't at idle though. :-) Here's my top output for comparison: top - 08:40:16 up 40 min, 2 users, load average: 0.78, 0.52, 0.50 Tasks: 116 total, 2 running, 114 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 5.7%us, 1.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 92.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st Mem: 515136k total, 504308k used, 10828k free, 106376k buffers Swap: 1510068k total, 34748k used, 1475320k free, 106968k cached First, thanks for your comment on my blog. I had all the announcements turned off so I didn’t see it until just now. :-)

You can rebuild your swap with mkswap and then make sure it on w/ swapon.

Don’t listen to the guy at the ubuntu forums about heavy memory usage. A linux system traditionally expands into the RAM available. It is normal. He also speaks of your system being at idle. That’s hard to support since your load averages are at 0.24, 0.44, and 0.69. I suppose I’d argue that any desktop machine isn’t at idle though. :-)

Here’s my top output for comparison:
top - 08:40:16 up 40 min, 2 users, load average: 0.78, 0.52, 0.50
Tasks: 116 total, 2 running, 114 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 5.7%us, 1.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 92.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 515136k total, 504308k used, 10828k free, 106376k buffers
Swap: 1510068k total, 34748k used, 1475320k free, 106968k cached

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