On 10/21/06, Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks, Colin. The result of top is:
Mem: 1034956k total, 626680k used, 408276k free, 27392k buffers Swap: 2173076k total, 112k used, 2172964k free, 299372k cached
This indicates that you certainly have enough memory. But you also want to look at information top supplies for each program to see whether either firefox or amule is using an unusually large amount of CPU time. If you are sharing a lot of files and/or have a lot of connections open at once, amule CPU usage may creep up a bit, but even with fairly heavy loads on my 2.4 GHz P4 system, amule's CPU usage ranges from 10-20%, which doesn't noticeably effect system performance. Keep in mind one more thing: when amule starts up, it generates hash indexes for files you are sharing, and this causes a spike in the CPU usage. But it only does this once per file. Once these hashes are generated, amule saves them permanently; next time you start it, it will only scan new files. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam
