The Saturday 2005-04-23 at 20:35 -0700, John Sowden wrote:
I am running a 48MB 133Mhz machine with Suse 8.0 It has worked fine on the net until today. The spped slowed down often to less than 100 bytes per second, and the hard drive thrashed for hours.
Questions: Should the swap partition be empty upon cold boot? If so what is the command to test it to see how full it is, and to empty it, and in which boot file should it go?
There is no such thing, and no need either. Your problem must be something else.
It took me 8 hours to look at about 30 web pages of a ecommerce site. I never was able to make my purchases. Sometimes, it would take 15 minutes to bring a page up. more ram is an easy answer, but this is an old machine, and 48MB is overkill for other work. what has changed?
My guess is that those pages are using java, and java needs a lot of memory. As you don't have it, it swaps a lot. I had the same problem three years back, and had to upgrade the computer, no other way: memory for old computers is prohibitive. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson