Search:

More updates: If I run my "munch" as root, kernel shows more respect and suddenly clear up the whole cache, although it kills few apps on the way including nm-applet, gnome-power-management, my...

UPDATE:
Got rid of encryption. I can't say it was cured totally but it got lot better. Without encryption, with addition of all the other cures that stuff that I applied (swapinness, telling the...

I found people having exactly the same problem as mine:

http://serverfault.com/questions/171164/can-you-set-a-minimum-linux-disk-buffer-size

and
...

The problem appeared pretty much the first few days I installed Lucid. That was the reason why I went and bought an extra GB of ram in a false hope that it will solve the problem. I pretty much...

OK, as I promised, here is the update:

swappiness = 10 (vs original 60) kind of helped. I haven't restarted my machine since I posted last \
post which was four days ago. Eveything was pretty...

Stinkeye,

Thank you very much about your advice on swappiness. I don't think I had done any permanent change to it before. This was my first attempt to apply the change it didn't make much...

Some new "non-updates" on the problem. I thought it might be that the encryptfs doesn't work very well with ext3 file systems (I think I read it somewhere) anyway, I migrated ext4 but I didn't see...

Ok, now I can confirm that the problem is the "swap" itself. With


# swapoff -a

I was able to run lots of instances of chrome, firefox, opera and thunderbird and munch reached got 827Mb above...

So I thought one way to test the "full swap hypothesis", the jocko's idea



is to turn off and on the swap when it's too full:

$ free
total used free shared ...

So basically based on what jocko and Devilman13 are saying, the root of the problem is that linux is insanely filling up my swap to suffocation point for no reason while I have so much "free" memory....

Hi jocko,

Thank you very much for looking into my problem.

My problem is exactly with your very first sentence:
"since the cache is simply overwritten as soon as the operating system or some...

Hi dcstar, I'm complaining because Linux is killing my applications, claiming "out of memory error." It sometimes kills chromium and sometimes gnome-power-management. And this is all because although...

This guy:

http://www.linuxatemyram.com/index.html

tries to convince me that I can get back my memory that is used by cache anytime I need it and he proposes a test here:
...

I have the same problem with Opera. When I browse, When such a thing happens my network monitor shows no data are passing through Internet. Few refresh, sometimes solve the problem. It became like...

I always get crash on right click simulation. What I do, is that i press Alt+Ctrl+F1, log in, type top. Mousetweak is always at the top. I can't kill it with killall but I kill it by

kill -n 5...

OK, I re-install the whole OS. First I should say that I'm running eeebuntu 3.0 which is essentially the same as ubuntu 9.04.

I reconfirm that psb driver works with kernel 2.6.28-15-generic...

Thanx for your reply.

I used apt-get dist-upgrade and it upgraded me to 2.29-1-netbook, where psb-kernel-source can't be compiled (compiling error due to an "strut" which has lost some members in...

Did any one manage to resume from suspend while using the "psb" graphic driver. I can resume successfully when I use the generic "ugly" driver but with the psb driver it always ends into a black...