On 07/11/2010 09:10 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > I've been running Fedora on my old Thinkpad A22p (P-III/M w/512MB) > since FC4 or before, upgrading from one version to the next using the > same partition sizes. For F13 I increased the size of /boot, but kept > swap at 1GB: > > # fdisk -l /dev/sda > > Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x000304c6 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 64 512000 83 Linux > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda2 64 14463 115658752 83 Linux > /dev/sda3 14463 14594 1048576 82 Linux swap / Solaris > > The last couple of releases have run agonizingly slowly with very high > load averages (between 2.x and 10.x). > > I just read > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html > which recommends a minimum of 2GB swap size for memory sizes up to > 4GB. I've been using 2x RAM for swap size ever since the 2.6 kernel > was introduced. At the moment (running 'yumex') 'top' indicates: > > top - 10:43:15 up 2 days, 6 min, 5 users, load average: 8.62, 6.84, 6.26 > Tasks: 244 total, 7 running, 237 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 60.7%us, 23.5%sy, 9.2%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 5.4%hi, 1.3%si, 0.0%st > Mem: 509800k total, 502624k used, 7176k free, 16280k buffers > Swap: 1048568k total, 317372k used, 731196k free, 101944k cached > > This indicates only about 30% of my 1GB swap is being used. Would > increasing that to 2GB have any affect on the load average performance? > > --Doc Savage > Fairview Heights, IL With only half a gig of ram, you will end up thrashing like crazy. Of course you will have a high load factor. How about putting in it the maximum amount of ram the notebook can handle. Ram is cheap now! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
