[nmglug] Freezing
Brian O'Keefe
okeefe at cybermesa.com
Sun Jun 7 08:34:14 PDT 2020
Thanks again Ted,
I looked for /boot/efi and there is a directory with many files. Below
is how I got there. In the screenshot you can see Swap is using very
little memory when I use my machine normally. The second screenshot
shows the directory /etc/boot on the disk /de/sda1 and the linux file
system on /dev/sda2. gparted has only two partitions (see below from
gparted). So the question begs how swap memory is an issue at all?
Here's the output of my digging for swap and not finding it in the
directory as shown below, /etc/boot. I also found an ubuntu directory
and listed the files. Again other than grub the results are Greek to me!
:/boot/efi/EFI# ls
BOOT ubuntu
root at brian-VivoBook-ASUS-Laptop-X505ZA-F505ZA:/boot/efi/EFI# cd ubuntu
root at brian-VivoBook-ASUS-Laptop-X505ZA-F505ZA:/boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu# ls
BOOTX64.CSV grub.cfg grubx64.efi mmx64.efi shimx64.efi
I am loathe to increase the swap memory when it doesn't appear to be a
problem according to System Monitor. Anyway, here are my search results
to find /etc/boot.
/home/brian# cd /boot
root at brian:/boot# ls
config-5.3.0-55-generic memtest86+.elf
config-5.4.0-33-generic memtest86+_multiboot.bin
efi System.map-5.3.0-55-generic
grub System.map-5.4.0-33-generic
initrd.img vmlinuz
initrd.img-5.3.0-55-generic vmlinuz-5.3.0-55-generic
initrd.img-5.4.0-33-generic vmlinuz-5.4.0-33-generic
initrd.img.old vmlinuz.old
memtest86+.bin
root at brian:/boot# cd efi
root at brian:/boot/efi# ls
EFI
root at brian:/boot/efi# cd EFI
root at brian:/boot/efi/EFI# ls
BOOT ubuntu
root at brian:/boot/efi/EFI# cd BOOT
root at brian:/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT# ls
BOOTX64.EFI fbx64.efi mmx64.efi
root at brian:/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT# cd /boot/efi/EFI
root at brian:/boot/efi/EFI# ls
BOOT ubuntu
root at brian:/boot/efi/EFI# cd ubuntu
root at brian:/boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu# ls
BOOTX64.CSV grub.cfg grubx64.efi mmx64.efi shimx64.efi
Again, many thanks.
Brian
PS: this is not a serious issue as I can do a hard shutdown and boot up
again. Next time I'm hopefully going to be doing nothing important and I
can just walk away and see if the machine un-freezes. I'll let you know
if I go that route and the results.
On 6/7/20 7:55 AM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
> Brian, Right, looks like you did a fresh install of 20.04 and the
> default in Ubuntu is now a swap file, not a partition. So... you could
> give a try at the method of increasing swap as described in your first
> email in this thread. the series of commands basically disconnects
> swap, then you blank some desire amount of free space, then designate
> this as the swap directory and enable it. Let us know how it works
> out. Thank you, Ted P.
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 10:18 PM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com
> <mailto:okeefe at cybermesa.com>> wrote:
>
> One observation that just came to me is the issue again copied
> below is relating to increasing swap is as a partition in 20.04
> but as you can see I do not have a swap partition but I have a 2GB
> something...file? Also a couple of screenshots from system
> monitor. It seems that swap has plenty of memory, at least as I
> run four applications open and hidden process. Maybe they are of
> some help?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Brian
>
>>> 0
>>>
>>> yes Ubuntu 20.04 hangs freeze although I have 8 GB of
>>> Ram and i7
>>>
>>> I could temporary fix this issue in my side, by
>>> expanding swap partition from 2 GB to 16 GB
>>>
>>> I am not sure but I think there is problem in Ubuntu
>>> 20.04 memory management, here in my side it keep
>>> consuming memory, then when both memory and swap are
>>> full, the computer start to freeze and hang
>>>
>>> the solution steps are:
>>>
>>> 1- check the amount of swap you have
>>>
>>> |grep SwapTotal /proc/meminfo |
>>>
>>> 2-turn off the swap process
>>>
>>> |sudo swapoff -a |
>>>
>>> 3-resize the swap(in my case i expand it to 16 gb)
>>>
>>> |sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1G count=16 |
>>>
>>> 4- attach the swap to partition
>>>
>>> |sudo mkswap /swapfile |
>>>
>>> 5- activate swap(enable it)
>>>
>>> |sudo swapon /swapfile |
>>>
>>> 6- see the new swap size
>>>
>>> |grep SwapTotal /proc/meminfo |
>>>
>>> done
>>>
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