Auto Off?

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Auto Off?
started by: adssse

Posted by adssse on Mar. 24 2005,21:31

I am using a hd install of 9.0.3, and after a day or two it exits to the command line or if I dont use it for a few days it seems to automatically turn itself off. By that I mean that the computer is still running but dsl itself seems not to be. Is this normal? Thanks in advance and I am sorry if this has already been discussed.

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 25 2005,06:13

Hmm...

Someone here mentioned that there could be a memory leak in the XVesa Xwindows server, so if you have limited RAM and no swap partition it could cause unpredictable results after a few days.

Creating a swap partition is a good idea.

Also, you could try using the Xfbdev server instead of the XVesa server.

Posted by adssse on Mar. 25 2005,23:40

Thanks. Could someone point me toward some information on creating a swap partition or let me know how themselves. I used Xsetup to change to the Xfbdev server, hopefully that will fix it. Any help would be appreciated, I am new to all of this and am just trying to learn yet.

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 26 2005,18:52

The whole XVesa thing is just a hunch. You could be suffering from a completely different problem...

There are two ways to do swap with DSL.

One way is to use

sudo cfdisk /dev/hda

where hda is your hard drive location.

If you have free unpartitioned space on your HD, just create a new "Linux Swap" partition and save it.

For example if you create a new primary partition #3 as Linux swap, you will then have a swap partition at /dev/hda3

Then you must format it.

sudo mkswap /dev/hda3

and then activate it. If you reboot the computer it will automatically activated at startup.

The other option is to create a DOS swap file if you have an existing FAT/FAT32 parition, IE: MSDOS/Win95/98/ME "C:\" drive.

Just use the Make DOS swap file option from the Fluxbox menu.

Good Luck.

Posted by adssse on Mar. 27 2005,05:07

I think I got it. Thank you for your help.