At first, I started seeing the warning signs. The halting pages. The molasses speed of the windows closing. The pictures not rendering. Then, I took action.

Recently I added a swap drive to my computer.

For a while, everything was good. Unicorns frolicked among the new bits and bytes resplendent on the shiny metal platter known as my swap drive.

Today, I opened Chromium, and got on the 7th tab (start.csail.mit.edu) "He's dead, Jim!". This used to happen before I added my swap drive, but now I thought that it wouldn't happen because I added more memory.

I fear for the safety of the unicorns. Please help me make my swap drive work again.

As a side note, here is the result of cat /proc/swaps:

Filename        Type            Size        Used      Priority
/dev/sda5      partition        39075836    213896    -1

Result of free:

                       total      used       free     shared    buffers    cached
Mem:                   507472     330792     176680   0         6208       71252
-/+ buffers/cache:     253332     254140

Result of df -h:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1       147G  8.9G  130G   7% /
none            4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev            240M   12K  240M   1% /dev
tmpfs            50M  824K   49M   2% /run
none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none            248M  208K  248M   1% /run/shm
none            100M   20K  100M   1% /run/user