[Discuss] strange behaviour

[Chris O'Connell]

Shoot, sorry, for some reason I hadn't missed the part about this being
Linux... I saw the 98 and my brain assumed Windows 98 :-(

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Chris O'Connell <omegahalo at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>>
>> j. daniel moylan
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