Re: Apt-get behaving badly
Lo, on Saturday, August 17, Steve Dondley did write:
> > Is it possible you're running out of memory, and the kernel decides to
> > kill dpkg because it's one of the things using lots of it?
> >
>
> I don't know. Maybe my swap partition isn't being used? I was recently
> playing around with cfdisk. According to my partition table, the swap
> partition is there and large enough.
>
> Do you know of a way to test if it's getting used by Linux? Thanks for the
> help.
Both free(1) and top(1) will display swap usage. For a fancier
solution, there are lots of graphical meters that can be configured to
display this as well. My favorite is xosview; a lot of folks like
gkrellm.
Richard
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