[SOLVED] Temporary Swap

duald flipflop

I was trying to compile something last night, I got an error saying I was out of virtual memory. Knowing that it's not a great idea for flash storage to use swap, I understand that one wouldn't want that by default. However when I tried running building a temporary swap partition, I couldn't run mkswap or swapon/off. Is this something ubilinux removed, or am I crazy?

I'm going to switch to Lubuntu for now because the program I was trying to compile last night has a PPA, so I may be able to get around this for now, but I'd like to know for future reference how to activate a temporary swap (especially since 1GB of RAM is a bit small these days).

DCleri

Hi Duald,

I tried to enable a swap file on ubilinux and it works fine on my side.
I am preparing a quick tutorial to add to our wiki/documentation so you could try it again.

I'll keep you posted!

DCleri

Just added a simple tutorial to our wiki: https://up-community.org/wiki/Enable_Swap_on_ubilinux

Kurt

Thanks, I will may also do this when I receive my Up board.

I thought I would note, that one place I have bookmarked for setting up my different systems is:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-14-04
Which has some good information. Not sure if the tweaks will apply here or not, but thought I would mention this link

duald flipflop

That is exactly what I tried the first time. I'll try it again after I reinstall tonight. I'll let you know how it goes.

duald flipflop

So, something must have been going on in my previous install of ubilinux to not allow me to build swap like a normal system would. This time after reinstalling, a quick update, and restart of the machine, I was able to make a four gigabyte swap on my UpBoard and compile the project. Now I just gotta figure out some other settings to make this more friendly as a kiosk display and we're in business! Perhaps when done, I'll post a project log.

DCleri

Please do!

We will soon enable a project section where the people from the community will be able to publish their work.