[Discuss] strange behaviour

[Chris O'Connell]

this may be kind of a shot in the dark, but check the maximum size of your
swap file?

A utility such as this may help:
http://windirstat.info/

Good luck, let us know what you find!

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:23 AM, dan moylan <jdm at moylan.us> wrote:

>
> last night, running ubuntu 11.04 on acer d255e, i got a
> pop-up window advising me that i was running out of disk
> space.  sure enough, df told me that i was at 98% with less
> that 1GB out of 40 available on /home.  so i went to /home,
> but du -s showed only 21GB in use. ???  i shut down and went
> to bed puzzled.
>
> today, i fired up and df shows 21GB in use.
>
> it may not be related, but yesterday i was struggling with
> some bizarre behaviour of mysql, which allowed me to enter
> rows with indices 0 1 3 4 5 into a table, but steadfastly
> refused to enter the row with index 2.  today row 2 enters
> fine.
>
> does anyone have any suggestions as to what i may be
> experiencing?
>
> tia,
> ole dan
>
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