computer lockups

speel · 02-01-2005, 04:53 PM

well im running ubuntu and at times when i have quite a few things running it just locks up and i have to hit the restart button on my box so any one know what could be wrong? ah if it matters i dont have a swap partion beacause i have 512mb ram so i hope some one out there knows

thanks

Tinkster · 02-01-2005, 05:06 PM

Give it a swap file and see whether the behaviour changes ;)
Commonly in an "out of memory" situation the kernel would
decide to kill a random process ... maybe on your box it shoots
itself in the foot?

Cheers,
Tink

speel · 02-01-2005, 06:34 PM

ah how would i be able to do that?

Tinkster · 02-01-2005, 06:38 PM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...73#post1442673

Cheers,
Tink

speel · 02-01-2005, 06:49 PM

after i typed dd if=/dev/zero of=test.swp bs=1024 count=512000 then i did mkswp test.swp it said mkswp: command not found

speel · 02-01-2005, 07:17 PM

ah nvm it was mkswap test.swp

but after i did all that it gave me this warning message

swapon on test.swp
swapon: warning: test.swp has insecure permissions 0644, 0600 suggested

is that ok?

Tinkster · 02-01-2005, 07:17 PM

tried all that as root?

Cheers,
Tink

speel · 02-01-2005, 08:02 PM