Another thing to keep in mind is that the memory manager in the early 2.4 kernels worked best with plenty of extra swap. But, because of many complaints, it was revamped. One of the optimizations that, though it was helpful in certain cases, caused worse problems in other cases, such as low ram or low swap environments. -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Felix Miata Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 12:00 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: new memory = more swap? Craig Thomas wrote: > Thank you. After reading chapter 7, I think I don't need more swap > space. Below is the output of free when running (but hardly using) > all the apps I generally run at once: > total used free shared buffers > cached > Mem: 385032 379860 5172 0 11840 > 132144 > -/+ buffers/cache: 235876 149156 > Swap: 514072 11848 502224 > This means I am using very little of my swap space and therefore I > don't need more. Is this right or am I off base? Swap = 2X installed RAM is an anachronism dating back to when memory cost $50US or more per megabyte and only servers routinely had more than 16 megabytes. Ordinary workstation users won't often find very much of the total available in use. My KDE box up 53 days with 128M of installed RAM currently shows 57396 of 522072 total swap in use. -- "Surely God would not have created such a being as man to exist only a day! No, no, man was made for immortality." President Abraham Lincoln Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
