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[Joseph Zitt <jzitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Looking at this, it appears that i don't have a swap partition at all. Does
that mean that my system isn't actually swapping, or that the swap is
handled some other way?

jzitt@jzitt-ubuntu-Eee-1000P:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9f1192b6

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       10444    83885056    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           10444       17738    58593750   83  Linux
/dev/sda3           18150       19455    10485760   1b  Hidden W95 FAT32
/dev/sda4           19455       19457       17760+  ef  EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

Disk /dev/sdb: 2044 MB, 2044723200 bytes
31 heads, 30 sectors/track, 4294 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 930 * 512 = 476160 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1        4295     1996676+   b  W95 FAT32

Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc680f370

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1               1       60801   488384001    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
jzitt@jzitt-ubuntu-Eee-1000P:~$


On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:01 AM, David Steele
<daves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Sounds like it is thrashing swap. Can you run 'top' somewhere to monitor
> for memory hogs? ( 'M' to sort by memory usage)
>
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Joseph Zitt <jzitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Following up, a month later:
>>
>> Well, it looks like I've figured out all these problems -- except the most
>> vexing one. Printing, the external monitor, the keyboard, all do what I
>> expect them to, on my Asus Eee 1001P running Ubuntu 10.10.
>>
>> The system still will go into a state in which the disk sounds like it's
>> thrashing endlessly and the interface freezes. I can sometimes nudge the
>> mouse pointer a little, but that's it. The only thing to do is to forcibly
>> power down. This has been happening, pretty much consistently, after it's
>> been up for an hour or two, when I've gone a little while without using the
>> keyboard or mouse. This happens both when I'm running the Netbook edition
>> with the Unity interface and the Desktop edition with the Gnome interface.
>> It does not happen when I run Windows 7 on the same hardware.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this happens consistently enough that I end up running
>> Windows most of the time. Since I prefer Linux and am more comfortable with
>> it, I would like to run Ubuntu on the system as my default, only hopping
>> over to Windows for specific tasks (such as managing my iPhone, which I
>> would leave to my PowerPC Mac running OS X Panther, except that, like a lot
>> of people, I can't get it to talk to my 2WIRE DSL connection effectively).
>>
>> Searching the web, I haven't found other instances of the problem with
>> Ubuntu freezing up, but I may not be searching on the right terms.
>>
>> Might this added info point to a solution?
>>
>>  On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Joseph Zitt <jzitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> First, my apologies for posting outside the key topics of politics or
>>> dentistry.
>>>
>>> I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition with the Unity interface on an
>>> Asus Eee 1001P. [0]
>>>
>>> The system has some quirks, such as starting with the keyboard NumLocked
>>> (which led me to think that i couldn't log in at all until I realized it)
>>> and not supporting an external monitor well.
>>>
>>> It also sometime grinds effectively to a halt. I hear it continuously
>>> accessing the hard drive, but can't do anything. This sometimes happens when
>>> I revive it by pressing a key after it's been idle for several hours, but
>>> also see it in some other less well-defined circumstances. (One thing I
>>> found was that opening the Files and Folders screen, so I don't use that
>>> anymore, sticking with Gnome Commander.) When this happens, all I can do is
>>> forcibly power down then power it back up.
>>>
>>> I seem to remember there being scripts, and possibly even software
>>> packages, that straightened this stuff out, but I'm not seeing them anymore.
>>>
>>> BTW, I hated the Unity interface when I first experienced it, but have
>>> grown to like it. With the help of Gnome Do, a bunch of Firefox plugins,
>>> Dropbox, and a few other tools, this is a surprisingly useful little PC.
>>>
>>> So... does anyone have any pointers on getting 10.10 to work better on
>>> this Eee?
>>>
>>> [0] http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=5AH8HAdGuhiQIXgg
>>>  --
>>> Joseph Zitt ::http://www.josephzitt.com
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Joseph Zitt ::http://www.josephzitt.com
>>
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