Device and partition question - swap partition - order by pertinence

Hibernation problems

Well I have been having hibernation problems for the last month since I had to deal with the problem of the URL in Thunderbird failing to be forwarded to Firefox. I fixed that on the 3rd install. The sound was the next problem i had to deal with ...

Message posted on the March 31st, 2012 - 12:04 PM ET

zcache preliminary benchmark results

Last November, in an LKML thread I would rather forget*, James Bottomley and others asked for some benchmarking to be done for zcache (among other things). For various reasons, that benchmarking is just now getting underway and more will be done, ...

Message posted on the March 21st, 2012 - 6:50 PM ET

Minimising wear on SSD

As my original thread was hijacked, I'm starting a new one here to avoid confusion :( I'll be getting a new machine (hopefully) today with a 180G SSD, and will be putting debian wheezy on it. I'd like to minimise unnecessary writes so would ...

Message posted on the November 13th, 2012 - 2:12 AM ET

Preserving SSDs

I'll be getting a new machine (hopefully) tomorrow with a 180G SSD, and will be putting debian wheezy on it. I'd like to minimise unnecessary writes so would appreciate some suggestions. Something I know how to do: edit fstab to include noatime ...

Message posted on the November 12th, 2012 - 6:12 PM ET

running of out memory => kernel crash

Hi I have noticed that when the swap is disabled (either via swapoff or not defining any swap partition), then running out of memory can cause a kernel panic. I wonder why the hungry application won't be killed upon a request for a ...

Message posted on the August 9th, 2011 - 3:00 AM ET

How to stop a message which requires the Enter key

Hash: SHA1 Recently I decided that I would like to be able cause the my Intel Quad desktop running Lenny to hibernate rather than have to be turned off completely while I am not using it for short periods. To this end I installed package ...

Message posted on the May 23rd, 2011 - 5:50 PM ET

Bug#598957: checkarray: I: selecting idle I/O scheduling class for resync

I made the same change in our config to this line in /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray: - echo "$PROGNAME: W: array $array in auto-read-only state, skipping..." >&2 + [ $quiet -lt 1 ] && echo "$PROGNAME: W: array ...

Message posted on the May 1st, 2011 - 9:40 PM ET

Preseeding and partman-auto-recipe.txt

I'm looking for a more complete list of preseedable questions/answers than given by the example preseed.cfg files found on various sites. Methods revolving around debconf-get-selections aren't satisfactory as I'm not interested in duplicating and ...

Message posted on the December 1st, 2012 - 11:00 AM ET

How to network install recent Mandriva on a PCMCIA laptop?

I have an ancient laptop (Pentium II) on which I need to install a really, really stripped down linux, but with a compiler, minicom, and modern USB support. There is only 4GB of disk space available, plus 200M each for a boot partition and a swap ...

Message posted on the September 17th, 2011 - 6:26 PM ET

Getting hibernate (s2disk) working with fglrx (ATI binary) drivers ?

Hi, I am using Debian/Lenny and though suspend (s2ram) works well hibernate (s2disk) does not. Hibernate goes through the entire process of saving state to disk but upon restarting the computer it just boots normally instead of reading back state ...

Message posted on the March 16th, 2009 - 7:08 AM ET

SDHC-16GB access problem

For my eeePC901 I attempted to install MDV2009 live on a SDHC-16GB flash module. To make the SDHC module bootable I used a (live) Ubuntu 8.10 DVD because Ubuntu has an option in their systems admin to 'Create a USB start-up disk'. So I fitted the ...

Message posted on the March 7th, 2009 - 7:47 PM ET

SSD on Linux

Has anyone tried this? Here is my situation: I have an application that reads stuff from my DB tables, and serves information out from memory. Works well, except when the process gets swapped out to disk, ie after some period of inactivity. So I ...

Message posted on the February 4th, 2009 - 6:55 PM ET

Small but still Ubuntu?

Hi All, I have the std Ubuntu 10.04 on my Asus eeePC (701, 4G SSD, 2G RAM) and whilst it was doing another big batch of updates the other day it said it was running out of space (148M free). Now as far as I remember there is no swap partition and ...

Message posted on the August 13th, 2010 - 3:33 AM ET

Bug#565225: No /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume file after Sid upgrade

Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.97.2 Severity: normal I upgraded to Sid from Squeeze today and went to run "update-initramfs -u" after changing my /etc/uswsusp.conf file, and was unable to resume from hibernation. There was no ...

Message posted on the July 10th, 2010 - 9:40 PM ET