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Re: [SLE] System very slow after a few hours
- From: Gerhard den Hollander <gerhard@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 21:35:32 +0200
- Message-id: <20020711193532.GM30782@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Herman L. Knief <herman@xxxxxxxxx> (Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:30:45AM -0700)
> No, not necessarily. It really depends on the applications and usage of
> the machine. If you were running big databases, then having a lot of swap
> would likely be more important. If you are only using this as your
> desktop, I wouldn't worry about it. Some machines/OS like Sun/Solaris can
> save crash dump info, which it needs at least as much swap as there is
> physical ram in order to save the crash... but Linux does not do this.
Rule of thumb is 2cs as much swap as RAM.
But before you go off and buy a lot of RAM ,
what video card are you using ?
Which version of XFree ?
I used to have the memory leak problem as well, but upgrading to XFRee 4.2
(and then to the 1.2XXX series of the nvidia driver) solved those issues.
My home box is up for 10 days and still lists
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 255564 251620 3944 0 7112 79864
-/+ buffers/cache: 164644 90920
Swap: 530136 114856 415280
whereas I usually had to restart X once every week (or had X restart itself
every week ;)_ ) due to memory leaks.
The box at work is up for 7 days (had to change the cd burner) and sais:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1028204 1006692 21512 0 193316 405856
-/+ buffers/cache: 407520 620684
Swap: 3671464 246704 3424760
[but I've restarted the Xserver a couple of times on firday because I was
fiddling around with the at libs in order to get Xft/AA working again on
kde302/suse73.
in the end I got the Qt rpms from the 8.0 kde302 and installed them over
the 7.3 roms and now I have AA/XFT working again.
Kind regards,
--
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> No, not necessarily. It really depends on the applications and usage of
> the machine. If you were running big databases, then having a lot of swap
> would likely be more important. If you are only using this as your
> desktop, I wouldn't worry about it. Some machines/OS like Sun/Solaris can
> save crash dump info, which it needs at least as much swap as there is
> physical ram in order to save the crash... but Linux does not do this.
Rule of thumb is 2cs as much swap as RAM.
But before you go off and buy a lot of RAM ,
what video card are you using ?
Which version of XFree ?
I used to have the memory leak problem as well, but upgrading to XFRee 4.2
(and then to the 1.2XXX series of the nvidia driver) solved those issues.
My home box is up for 10 days and still lists
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 255564 251620 3944 0 7112 79864
-/+ buffers/cache: 164644 90920
Swap: 530136 114856 415280
whereas I usually had to restart X once every week (or had X restart itself
every week ;)_ ) due to memory leaks.
The box at work is up for 7 days (had to change the cd burner) and sais:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1028204 1006692 21512 0 193316 405856
-/+ buffers/cache: 407520 620684
Swap: 3671464 246704 3424760
[but I've restarted the Xserver a couple of times on firday because I was
fiddling around with the at libs in order to get Xft/AA working again on
kde302/suse73.
in the end I got the Qt rpms from the 8.0 kde302 and installed them over
the 7.3 roms and now I have AA/XFT working again.
Kind regards,
--
Gerhard den Hollander Phone :+31-10.280.1515
Global IT Support manager Direct:+31-10.280.1539
Jason Geosystems BV Fax :+31-10.280.1511
(When calling please note: we are in GMT+1)
gdenhollander@xxxxxxxxxxxx POBox 1573
visit us at http://www.jasongeo.com 3000 BN Rotterdam
JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands
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