LimeWire hangs my Ubunutu

[Osama I. Dosary]

Darryl Clarke wrote:

>On 7/30/05, Osama I. Dosary <oid at saudi.net.sa> wrote:
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>>I notice that the used Swap is ZERO. How can that be, when the Java
>>process is using 341MB of Virtual memory, with only 19MB resedent
>>memory. VIRT = SWAP + RES (from 'top' man-page), which means that 322MB
>>of swap must be used, so why isn't 'top' showing the swapping. ... I'm
>>confused. And is this related to the hangs?
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>>Does anyone have any ideas about what is going on, or how I can fix it?
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>I don't use limewire, so I can't really help you on that issue,
>however, linux won't swap until it has to.  You have plenty of ram
>(and plenty still free) -  It will swap when it runs out of physical
>RAM, of which upto how much VIRT indicated could be used as swap by
>that application.
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>Linux memory managment is usually pretty good, but sometimes pretty confusing.
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Do you know how I tell what the error it ran into before it froze?