disk full error, know it cant be

[Rexilion]

I think I finally know whats going on. For some reason all my applications have about 10 threads so they use up a lot of RAM and then force some of it into swap, even though it doesn't show the swap being used. I have 6 GB of RAM so I don't know why it would be using that. Is there any reason why everything has so many threads?

Many threads does not imply high RAM usage. If an app is using much RAM, then this is either intentional or a bug.

Care to show the output of 'top'?

[netopalis45]

The best I can do is a screenshot since "top" and "htop" don't seem to want to output to a text file, is that alright?

[Wim Sturkenboom]

You can drag the mouse over top output in the terminal and that way select a part of the top output. Next press <ctrl><shift>c to copy and after that you can paste.

PS
You can sort the top output by memory usage by pressing capital M.

[Rexilion]

I'm sorry, I didn't think this through as in taking a snapshot of top...

top -b -n1 > top.log

Paste top.log at www.pastebin.com and paste te link here.

[netopalis45]

I am unable to create the top.log file. Whenever I use the command to make it it looks like it works but when I try to view the file I get the error "E297: Write error in swap file top.log OL, OC" in vim.

[Rexilion]

Try doing this:

top -b -n1

And copy the output to pastebin.com

[netopalis45]

I did that and when I try to open t the file I get the error I posted above

[Wim Sturkenboom]

top -b -n1 does not output to file

[Rexilion]

I did that and when I try to open t the file I get the error I posted above

I said to copy the output (which all happens in memory). Creating the file apparently fails since your disk is full...

[philinux]

Have a look at this.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoverLostDiskSpace