Greg Freemyer wrote:
If you are using swap enough to worry about the speed of the drive, you have something wrong in my opinion.
Do a "vmstat 5" and watch the "so" column. If it is zero most of the time you're not really using swap. i.e Nothing is being sent to swap.
If it is typically non-zero during normal system usage, you have a problem (or some really big programs). Typically not enough RAM. In that situation I personally would buy more ram, not try to figure out how to make swap faster.
Greg
When I currently look at the process tab in Ksysmon the swap is zero. I've got 768MB RAM in the system. It's old and a bit slow, but it runs opensuse and I have to say that I am thrilled to have it running, since the first time I tried to install it I couldn't get it to get up and go. I don't have a lot of money to build a new system right now and I'm just trying to keep this system running as long and as efficiently as I can for the time it has left. I don't do much serious work on it and I hope to start learning about programming and server management. Damn I really like this operating system! Beats the H E double hockey sticks out of Windows any day of the week! Cheers, Dwain -- Dwain Alford P.O. Box 145 Winfield, Alabama 35594 telephone: 205.487.2570 cellphone: 205.495.5619 "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning The Spiritual In Art" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org