[TAG] segmentation fault in aptitude

[Breen Mullins]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:25:50AM -0400, Benjamin A. Okopnik wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 07:30:24PM +0530, Joydeep Bakshi wrote:

> > in my system *swapon -s* displays
> > 
> > Filename                        Type            Size    Used    Priority
> > /dev/hda2                       partition       125204  44340   -1
>  
> OK. Kapil's suggestion, regarding "reformatting" that swap partition,
> may be worthwhile here.

That's a pretty small swap partition in any case. Joydeep, how much
RAM do you have in this system? The usual rule of thumb is that your
swap partition should be 2x the installed RAM.

> > but *di* command shows
> > 
> > Filesystem         Mount         Megs     Used      Avail   %used fs Type
> > /dev/hda1          /                 3981.4   1345.4   2636.1  34%  reiserfs
> > tmpfs              /dev/shm        22.6      0.0        22.6     0%      tmpfs
>  
> That last entry _might_ give you problems: 22.6MB for /tmp is pretty
> small

But the tmpfs filesystem is a virtual one -- he will still have a /tmp
directory in his root partition which has plenty of room.

Breen
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Breen Mullins
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