[Novalug] may be hardware related

Bonnie Dalzell bdalzell@qis.net
Fri Feb 13 17:04:46 EST 2009


On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:

MM >On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 16:06 -0500, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
MM >> i have an older system and at this time it only has 1/2 gb of ram -
MM >> 
MM >> i have had problems with freezing up when I tried to archive (.tar.gz) 4 
MM >> gb partitions. could this be due to too little memory?
MM >
MM >Sounds like a valid explanation.  I think what's being tar'd has to be
MM >read into memory, so with that little memory and not another 4gb of
MM >swap...

i did give myself 6+GB of swap on the new harddrive
MM >
MM >You could find out by running "top" in a terminal while you try it.
MM >
 good suggestion


MM >-- 
MM >Mackenzie Morgan
MM >http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
MM >apt-get moo
MM >

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