Brian, A quick look at it seems that it is correct. Swap is a partition, it has to be unmounted to be re-sized, hence the 'swapoff' command. The 'dd' to resize it is an interesting approach, rather than using parted or gparted. If you have used all of the physical drive to install, it might feel clearer to use gparted to enlarge /swap and see which other partition is giving up some room. Check to see if the sample directions were installed to hardware like yours or was it a virtual install? I will have to take a look at the discussion on the Internet. Thank you, Ted P.

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 2:21 PM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe@cybermesa.com> wrote:

Hi All,

My Asus laptop has been freezing up for no reason that I could think of. I found out my swap partition is 2GB and this person solved it by increasing the swap partition to 16GB. I'm reluctant to start messing with partitions, though I have at times, w/o one of you brainiacs look at the procedure. If anyone can look this over I'd appreciate it but no obligations.

Stay safe!

Brian

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yes Ubuntu 20.04 hangs freeze although I have 8 GB of Ram and i7

I could temporary fix this issue in my side, by expanding swap partition from 2 GB to 16 GB

I am not sure but I think there is problem in Ubuntu 20.04 memory management, here in my side it keep consuming memory, then when both memory and swap are full, the computer start to freeze and hang

the solution steps are:

1- check the amount of swap you have
grep SwapTotal /proc/meminfo
2-turn off the swap process
sudo swapoff -a
3-resize the swap(in my case i expand it to 16 gb)
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1G count=16
4- attach the swap to partition
sudo mkswap /swapfile
5- activate swap(enable it)
sudo swapon /swapfile
6- see the new swap size
grep SwapTotal /proc/meminfo
done
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