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:The last couple of releases have run agonizingly slowly with very high load averages (between 2.x and 10.x).# 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 Don't run Gnome/KDE desktops - they're memory hogs. Instead, try XFCE - it's much lighter and faster (fewer features, though). You have ~800MB of virtual memory used (mem used+swap used) with nothing but yumex. I have Thunderbird and Firefox and several small programs open; my virt memory usage is at ~600MB. The rest of my 2G is buffers and caches. Mem: 2061244k total, 1999948k used, 61296k free, 303296k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 917156k cached As far as swap, keep it at 1G, it's a reasonable setting with your hardware. With my 2G RAM, I have the swap partition at 2G, but keep it turned off most of the time -- the programs I open rarely, if ever, fill up the 2G and it's faster to not use the swap when you don't need it. But that's just me, not a recommendation of any kind :) |
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