[Resolved] Re: video problems in Ubuntu

[Douglas Pollard]

On 01/20/2012 10:19 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 21/01/12 13:41, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  
>> wrote:
>>>> Ubuntu installs memtest86+. All he has to do is, keep pressing Shift
>>>> key during boot, and at the menu that pops up, select memtest86+.
>>>
>>> But it all depends on which version Ubuntu installs for itself. The 
>>> latest
>>> version from memtest.org is v4.20 and you use this because earlier
>>> version(s) had a problem when doing Test #5 and gave wrong results. If
>>> Ubuntu now does have v4.2 then that's fine and no need to download 
>>> it from
>>> memtest.org.
>> I checked Synaptic, and I saw that in Ubuntu 11.10, the latest
>> memtest86+ version is installed.
>
>
> Aha, that's good.
>
> Only hassle is: Doug is using Ubuntu 11.04...... :-) .
>
> BC
>
    I really don't think there is anything wrong with the memory as 
system monitor says my computer is using 100 percent of the memory the 
whole time.  The swap file in the beginning only has about 3% data in it 
and it slowly increases to 50% and finally after about 1 hour of file 
rendering gets up to 100%.   Such a small amount of swap space it fills 
up quick. For now I will follow No0p's suggestion and add more memory 
then I will use Gparted to to increase the swapfile from 885mb  to about 
4 gig.  The video I am working with is black and white and if it were 
full color I would likely need 4g of memory and 4 g of swap space or 
more to render.  Most of the color video I have done has only been 15 
minutes long or less so the swap never gets big enough to cause a 
problem.   I will install 4gig with the idea I will at some point need 
all of it.
                                                                         
     Thanks all, for helping. I'll let you know how this works out.    Doug