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bigpup · Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 12348 Location: S.C. USA

Are you sure you actually have a swap file?
Sure you are not talking about the xenialpup64save being made 4GB?
That is not a swap file. Something totally different.

A true swap file.
The file should be named swapfile.
It should be located in /mnt/home/

If it is there as swapfile for the name.

The swapfile manager will just replace it with whatever you make it in swapfile manager.
It makes a swap file named swapfile.
It overwrites the old swapfile with the new one.
So, that changes the size.

If the original swap file is named something other than swapfile.
You will end up with two swap files.

If you only want one swap file.
In the Swapfile Manager turn off swap.
In a file manager (Rox)
Delete the old swap file, so you only have the new one.
In Swapfile Manager turn swap back on.
Done.

d_vineet · Joined: 06 Aug 2018 Posts: 116 Location: Bharat

Sure I am talking about swapfile (while doing frugal install initially, I was asked reg swap file by the installer; I had specified size for that; don't exactly remember size 4 or 2 GiB).

Now I can see 2 related files in /mnt/home/
1) pupswap.swp (4GiB),
2) swapfile (w/o any file extension) (2GiB).

As you had mentioned, "swapfile" must have been created by the puppy installer initially.
But from where came the pupswap.swp, I don't know.

Should I delete both of these files and create a fresh one by using swapfile manager?

bigpup · Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 12348 Location: S.C. USA

pupswap.swp probably was made by the installer you used.
What installer did you use?

d_vineet · Joined: 06 Aug 2018 Posts: 116 Location: Bharat

d_vineet · Joined: 06 Aug 2018 Posts: 116 Location: Bharat

Firsly did "swap off".
Then tried to delete file /mnt/home/pupswap.swp using ROX-Filer by rgt-clk.
1) message "ERROR: Operation not permitted".
2) After a few seconds, OS halted with a message flash of "RAM remaining is 0. Pl. consider reboot...".

I then made "swap on". OS again working OK.
It's maybe that we are not supposed to delete pupswap file?

However, I can delete swapfile from ROX-Filer w/o any error, but it doesn't appear in trash. Then re-created another one by using "swapfile - Manager".

EDIT:-
Upon inspecting with "htop", swap is shown to be 6143GiB.
Means addition of pupswap.swp(4GiB) + swapfile(2GiB)
Screenshot is attached.
Can't understand this puzzle!

bigpup · Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 12348 Location: S.C. USA

When you delete something in Rox it is deleted, gone.

To put something in trash. You have to drag and drop it into the trash desktop icon.
Some Puppies have trash in the Rox right click menu.

Htop shows you have 4GB of memory.
Is that correct??
Turning off swap should have no affect with that much memory.
It also shows using swap and only using 297mb of ram.
That is strange.
Swap should not even be used with that much ram.
Not sure what that indicates.

d_vineet · Joined: 06 Aug 2018 Posts: 116 Location: Bharat

bigpup · Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 12348 Location: S.C. USA

No.
I am saying that is the topic for Xenialpup64 7.5

You need to post in it about your problem with this pupswap.swp

Does your computer have 4 GB of memory??

d_vineet · Joined: 06 Aug 2018 Posts: 116 Location: Bharat

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 3431 Location: wales

hi d_vineet,

you can check the location and info on swaps using this command