On 7/11/05, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > FC2 has completely surprised me with how slow it is. I have a 2.7 GHz > Celeron > with 256MB RAM, and it takes 3 seconds to start a new xterm. The System > Monitor > shows 1-3% CPU occupancy, 154MB used RAM, and 96.9MB of swap. I'm a > little bit > surprised that it's using any swap with only 60% of memory full. The kernel tries to swap unused pages out to give more space to the disk cache (all the unused memory). You can adjust the swapping behaviour by writing a value to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness (see http://kerneltrap.org/node/1044). Klaasjan
