Bret Busby <b...@busby.net> writes: >>> <snip> >> >> It has occurred to me, that this ivolves multiple problems or symptoms. >> >> 1. The operating system and/or the web browsers ignore the swap partition, >> and simply progressivley consume the RAM, until none is left free to be >> used, >> causing system crashes. No known reason is shown for this, and checks have >> been done, and all of the settings appear to be correct for causing swapping >> to occur; it simply does not occur, and the system progresively runs out of >> memory, until it crashes. >>
How do you determine that swap is not being used? Have you run top (for example) to see cpu and memory usage? >> <snip> >> >> 8. I do not know how to cause space consumed by downloaded files, in a >> system >> update, to be automatically freed, by purging either the files downloaded in >> the system update, and or any files or other disk space consumed by the >> update process, or, the predecessors of the files downloaded in the sytem >> update. I assume (but am not sure) that they occupy space within the >> Downloads directory within the home partition. >> Files downloaded by apt go to /var/cache/apt/archives. You can run the apt-get clean command to delete them. If your home directory is a separate partition, this will not help your problem. >> <snip> > > Please "CC" any replies to my gmail account; > bret.bu...@gmail.com > as this system will no longer run alpine on a two-way basis - the free > disk space is now too low to receive any incoming messages. > > Debian 6 has now effectively rendered this computer unusable. > > df -h shows for the home partition, Size - 77GB Used - 73GB Free - 1.2MB > but a warning dispalyed showing less than 1MB free. > Have you attempted to find out which directories under your /home are taking up all this space? $ du -s ~/.* ~/* | sort -k1 -n This command will show you usage of all files/directories in your home directory. Look at the last few lines in the output for anything that is taking up unusual amounts of space. > Amongst other things, it is unfortunate that Linux does not include a > defragmentation utility. It may have helped a bit. > > It may have helped deal with, and, possibly overcome, the progressive > comsumption of the disk space, by the operating system. > Nothing so far seems like it could be caused by filesystem fragmentation. > It is a bit silly, when a supercomputer (yes, this is what was, only a > few years ago, a powerful enough computer that would have been classed > as a supercomputer) can not even run a text based email application, due > to the operating system. > -- regards, kushal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y5ihznv2.fsf@nitrogen.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me