> I see in the web UI that the disk size for this type of VM ("small") is > > 5Gb. Is that it? > > > > IIRC, I at one point had it set to a lower value, but then the VMs > > wouldn't start, so I changed it to 5Gb a while ago. > then you should have swap, so what did you mean by they don't have swap?
I mean the instance only has the RAM I gave it (256Mb) and no swap enabled, i.e., the output of "free" shows zero for swap. It may be that there is just a missing swapon. Let me check by creating another instance quickly... r...@192:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 5415 MB, 5415895040 bytes 4 heads, 32 sectors/track, 82640 cylinders Units = cylinders of 128 * 512 = 65536 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000b20b6 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 32769 2097152+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 32769 71894 2504000+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 71894 82640 687775+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris r...@192:~# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 247984 185772 62212 0 4316 91716 -/+ buffers/cache: 89740 158244 Swap: 0 0 0 r...@192:~# cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 0 0 /dev/sda2 /mnt ext2 defaults 0 0 r...@192:~# r...@192:~# swapon /dev/sda3 r...@192:~# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 247984 186072 61912 0 4364 91744 -/+ buffers/cache: 89964 158020 Swap: 687764 0 687764 r...@192:~# Yep, looks like it's a missing swapon and/or entry in /etc/fstab. -- arch parameter is not passed by the image proxy during image install from store https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/494084 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs