swap

[philipluna66]

I have two problems. My swap file seems to be filling up When I booted up it was empty I have downloaded updates and its half full and not going down. It does this till it gets full then I have to reboot.
The other thing is my computer doesn't recognize my external hard drive. I have been using Gtorrent to download things now it is saying canot mount usb drive.
Please keep youre answers simple as I am fairly new to ubuntu

I HAVE 375mb RAM
385 MB SWAP
aT MOMENT IT IS USING 161mb RAM
118 MB swap
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 375 365 10 0 9 172
-/+ buffers/cache: 182 193
Swap: 384 117 266

[Tom--d]

First of all, how much ram do you have?

Next, when you have to reboot, take a screeny of sytem monitor (process tabs) and sort it by ram. (greatest first)
Also, make sure you have all the processes showing (View > All Processes)

And post it back here.

[hyper_ch]

also post the output of

free -m

when the swap is full.

[skymera]

How much RAM does your system have?