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Mad Fish

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 295

Acer Aspire One 110, stability issues. System unusable after some time

I don't know, is it really a kernel issue, or something else.

After running OS for some time, it starts to use SSD hardly, making any other actions completely impossible (just makes system unusable). And it doesn't stop until shutdown.

It seems this is somehow memory related. When I enable swap on the external hard drive it begins using it even when "free" command says that I have a 300 Mb more free RAM. Looks like a invisible memory leak somewhere in the kernel.

What the hell is that? It really makes me mad.

Last edited by Mad Fish (2009-11-16 14:39:07)

apaige

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Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 96

Re: Acer Aspire One 110, stability issues. System unusable after some time

I have that netbook (8GB SSD, shipped with 512MiB of RAM, upgraded to 1.5GiB).
First, add a 1GiB RAM stick. It's painful since you have to take the whole laptop appart, but it's really worth it. It's like night and day.
Second, do NOT use swap on that SSD. It's already very slow as it is - using swap on it is insane.
Third, I suggest purchasing a Lexar Professional SDHC card (mine is 4GB) and installing Arch Linux on that. It's much faster at small random writes than the internal SSD. Just put /boot on the SSD so that Grub can boot it.
Fourth, mount sensible dirs on tmpfs (like /tmp).

As for the actual problem you're having, I have no clue. But those advices will make a big difference.

MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: Acer Aspire One 110, stability issues. System unusable after some time

You may want to look into this wiki article:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Max … erformance

It focuses on performance and contains several tuning hints for SSD's.