<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Brian, Very interesting. Is your swap a file or a partition? I just read an article <a href="https://bogdancornianu.com/change-swap-size-in-ubuntu/">https://bogdancornianu.com/change-swap-size-in-ubuntu/</a> which sounds like what you describe for making swap bigger. It notes that Ubuntu changed the protocol of swap from a partition to a file. I am using Xubuntu 18.04 and the install here is a swap partition. As shown here from my lsblk:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">sda 8:0 0 298.1G 0 disk <br>├─sda1 8:1 0 199M 0 part <br>├─sda2 8:2 0 165.4G 0 part <br>├─sda3 8:3 0 1K 0 part <br>├─sda4 8:4 0 103.3M 0 part <br>├─sda5 8:5 0 125G 0 part /<br>└─sda6 8:6 0 7.5G 0 part [SWAP]<br>sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">So, be careful and check first. I might suggest you ascertain the nature of your system before trying to use the directions you quoted. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thank you, Ted P.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 3:35 PM Ted Pomeroy <<a href="mailto:ted.pome@gmail.com">ted.pome@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Brian, A quick look at it seems that it is correct. Swap is a partition, it has to be unmounted to be re-sized, hence the 'swapoff' command. The 'dd' to resize it is an interesting approach, rather than using parted or gparted. If you have used all of the physical drive to install, it might feel clearer to use gparted to enlarge /swap and see which other partition is giving up some room. Check to see if the sample directions were installed to hardware like yours or was it a virtual install? I will have to take a look at the discussion on the Internet. Thank you, Ted P.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 2:21 PM Brian O'Keefe <<a href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com" target="_blank">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>My Asus laptop has been freezing up for no reason that I could
think of. I found out my swap partition is 2GB and this person
solved it by increasing the swap partition to 16GB. I'm reluctant
to start messing with partitions, though I have at times, w/o one
of you brainiacs look at the procedure. If anyone can look this
over I'd appreciate it but no obligations. <br>
</p>
<p>Stay safe!</p>
<p>Brian</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both">yes Ubuntu 20.04
hangs freeze although I have 8 GB of Ram and i7</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both">I could temporary
fix this issue in my side, by expanding swap partition from 2
GB to 16 GB</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both">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</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both">the solution
steps are:</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both">1- check the
amount of swap you have</p>
<pre style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:12px 8px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;width:auto;max-height:600px;overflow:auto;border-radius:3px"><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;white-space:inherit">grep SwapTotal /proc/meminfo
</code></pre>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both">2-turn off the
swap process</p>
<pre style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:12px 8px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;width:auto;max-height:600px;overflow:auto;border-radius:3px"><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;white-space:inherit">sudo swapoff -a
</code></pre>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both">3-resize the
swap(in my case i expand it to 16 gb)</p>
<pre style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:12px 8px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;width:auto;max-height:600px;overflow:auto;border-radius:3px"><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;white-space:inherit">sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1G count=16
</code></pre>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both">4- attach the
swap to partition</p>
<pre style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:12px 8px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;width:auto;max-height:600px;overflow:auto;border-radius:3px"><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;white-space:inherit">sudo mkswap /swapfile
</code></pre>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both">5- activate
swap(enable it)</p>
<pre style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:12px 8px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;width:auto;max-height:600px;overflow:auto;border-radius:3px"><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;white-space:inherit">sudo swapon /swapfile
</code></pre>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both">6- see the new
swap size</p>
<pre style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:12px 8px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;width:auto;max-height:600px;overflow:auto;border-radius:3px"><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;white-space:inherit">grep SwapTotal /proc/meminfo
</code></pre>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both">done</p>
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