Workspaces Queston *answered*

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 16:27, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/12/20 8:12 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 15:01, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I normally am able to do an ssh from another system to the the one in question. I do it frequently and most generally I have a connection running. I use it for maintenance purposes on my wife's system. She is not technically savy, so I use  the window I have open on her system to do so. Avoids having to disturb her stuff and keeps her system up to date.
> >>
> >> In this case I tried to do an ssh to my system from another one (my laptop). I got a prompt to enter the password for the locked up system, entered it and NOTHING happened for over 12 hours...
> > That is some very severe system overload then!
> >
> > What device is your swap on? How much RAM do you have in the machine?
>
> BANG !
>
> Somehow I my fstab got messed up when I moved to 18.4.4. I have a swap
> file only, my swap partition is not even being mounted.

There is nothing wrong with using a swap file (as far as I know).  I
haven't used a swap partition for years.  It is so much easier to
change the size with a file.

Colin