Sorry I am late getting back with reply, almost a day ago, the free swap memory was down to a couple of hundred bytes. I left it alone to see what would happen next, a few minutes later the whole Raspberry pi locked up I could not do anything.
I had to force a reboot by pressing the green LED next to where the micro SD card lives. When it rebooted I kept checking the free memory with the free Linux command, for about 20 hours it gave 0 bytes used, then it gave 256 memory used, A few minutes later it was 160096 then a few seconds it was different but much the same number
One thing I did do between having 0 bytes used by the swap memory and getting the start of swap memory used, was there was a 1 package update bout a hour or so before this posting this after using the sudo apt update command and the other ones to check the file and install it to update the system
All the same, I am thinking maybe I should manual increase the swap memory but with 1/4 gig of free memory and 1/5 gig of swap memory, it does not give my much room to play with, unless I go to bigger micro SD card from the current size of 64 Gig or add on a 1TB SSD memory but can I update the larger SSD to a smaller micro SD card. They say using SSD memory boots up quicker, I am not worried how long it boots up, I am just tring to use the Raspberry pi without having to reboot it every few days because it locks up.
In the meantime I will read a few comments I did read as I did not want to provoke the memory getting used by any website.
I had to force a reboot by pressing the green LED next to where the micro SD card lives. When it rebooted I kept checking the free memory with the free Linux command, for about 20 hours it gave 0 bytes used, then it gave 256 memory used, A few minutes later it was 160096 then a few seconds it was different but much the same number
One thing I did do between having 0 bytes used by the swap memory and getting the start of swap memory used, was there was a 1 package update bout a hour or so before this posting this after using the sudo apt update command and the other ones to check the file and install it to update the system
All the same, I am thinking maybe I should manual increase the swap memory but with 1/4 gig of free memory and 1/5 gig of swap memory, it does not give my much room to play with, unless I go to bigger micro SD card from the current size of 64 Gig or add on a 1TB SSD memory but can I update the larger SSD to a smaller micro SD card. They say using SSD memory boots up quicker, I am not worried how long it boots up, I am just tring to use the Raspberry pi without having to reboot it every few days because it locks up.
In the meantime I will read a few comments I did read as I did not want to provoke the memory getting used by any website.
Statistics: Posted by ericAuckland — Thu Jun 05, 2025 5:48 am