<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Derek Broughton wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:2123656.ZBoCJJeqha@cedar.serverforest.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Ted Hilts wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Here is my swap: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">ted@Ubuntu:~$ swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda4 partition 854272 405932 -1 ted@Ubuntu:~$ Getting close to 1 GByte -- that ought to be enough when nothing is happenning -- that is I emptied the 4 desktops and all that was left were the icons put in place during installation. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> No, that isn't anywhere NEAR enough for a modern system. The "icons" are irrelevant - they're not running programs. It's the programs that are _running_ that matter. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">One big point everyone is missing is that it worked and now it doesn't. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> No, that's definitely not something I missed. That's exactly why I say you have a configuration problem, not a distribution problem. And in my eyes, the configuration problem is precisely that you don't have anywhere near enough swap. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On power up it worked but complained it did not work but it did. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> And you haven't answered my questions about that. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">So far, no one has yet come up with a solution to this problem I have </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> So far, at least two people have told you exactly what your problem is. So, one last try before I give up on you. What does "free" show? derek@bella:~$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1025972 934844 91128 0 52 311512 -/+ buffers/cache: 623280 402692 Swap: 3004112 30280 2973832 If the number in the "used" column for Mem is less than the number in the "free" column for Swap, you need a bigger swap partition [and before someone says how untrue that is, I know, it's just an approximation]. </pre> </blockquote> Here are the results of the "free" command. Somehow I missed your email requesting the results of the "free" command. My email shows 3 threads under the primary thread so I may have accidentally read your request incompletely thinking it was a resend. I apologize! Thanks for your tolerance. ted@Ubuntu:~$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2596008 1453768 1142240 0 268616 510000 -/+ buffers/cache: 675152 1920856 Swap: 854272 500192 354080 ted@Ubuntu:~$ The above is with 5 desktops with at least 1 very big application and a dozen small applications and including VNC. Thanks -- Ted </body> </html>