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empty the swap partition? slow internet
- From: John Sowden <jsowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 20:35:58 -0700
- Message-id: <200504232035.58585.jsowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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?
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?
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John Sowden
American Sentry Systems. Inc.
1221 Andersen Drive
San Rafael, CA 94901
U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service
Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967
mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.americansentry.net
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?
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?
---
John Sowden
American Sentry Systems. Inc.
1221 Andersen Drive
San Rafael, CA 94901
U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service
Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967
mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.americansentry.net
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