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I'd like to know if it's possible to bring pages from a particular process into main memory, or to set parameters for a given process, or class of process so that it will not be swapped out.
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I've got a problem with apt-get update and apt-get install ... commands .
every time update or installing fails and errors are :
Get:1 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [198B]
Ign http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main Translation-en_US
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sh@ubuntu:/home/ccpp/helloworld$ make
gcc-4.6 -O2 -DMODULE -D_KERNEL_ -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -isystem /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -c -o hello-1.o hello-1.c
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I am having trouble accessing the several critical header files that show to be a part of the build process.
The "Ubuntu Software Center" shows "Build Essentials" as installed:
Next I did the following two commands, which did not improve the problem:
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I'm trying to update my Debian machine to 2.6.32-46 (which is the new stable). However, after doing apt-get update my apt-cache search linux-image shows me:
linux-headers-2.6.32-5-486 - Header files for Linux 2.6.32-5-486
linux-headers-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem - Header files for Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem
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I'm helping out with a project for an embedded device that only has USB and no serial. This device is running Linux.
These days, when we need to connect to a serial port on a device we typically use a USB to serial adapter (on something like a phone system or a load balancing device, etc). I would…
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My root server at 1&1 was unresponsive on HTTP and SSH, so I logged into the serial console . It flooded my connection with endless error messages like quoted below.
I initiated a reboot and now everything seems to work properly.
After googling, I installed smartctl and ran a short self test…
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I have used GNU/Linux on systems from 4 MB RAM to 512 GB RAM. When
they start swapping, most of the time you can still log in and kill
off the offending process - you just have to be 100-1000 times more
patient.
On my new 32 GB system that has changed: It blocks when it starts
swapping. Sometimes…
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I think I had an encrypted swap partition, because I chose to encrypt my home directory during the installation. I believe that's what the line with /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 ... in my /etc/fstab is all about.
I did something to bork my swap because on the next boot, I got a message (paraphrased):
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When looking vmstat, this is what I got:
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st
1 0 0 2872 0 0 0 0 8 17 0 14 3 1 94 2 0
the cache…
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Hello guys and girls,
I've a big problem it's the second time that my server crashed. I tried to check every thing and seems correct except this /var/log/messages:
May 25 20:16:11 srv1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 00300000
May 25 20:16:33 srv1 kernel: swap_free: Unused swap offset…
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