Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

["Theo v. Werkhoven" <theo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fri, 21 Sep 2007, by joe@xxxxxxxxxx:

> Jeremy Figgins wrote:
> > I've seen a lot of "top" output thrown around on this topic and a bunch
> > of  people have touched on this issue, but let me ask this question:
> >
> > I'm sitting right now in front of my 1gig machine. I have my normal set
> > of apps open: firefox, thunderbird, konsole, etc. How can I tell if I
> > would benefit from additional RAM? What command and what output do I
> > need to pay attention to?
> >   
> If you're using any swap at all, you would benefit from additional RAM.
> 
> top or free could tell you about swap usage.

Not important at all.
What you should be looking at is the amount of swap blocks in and
out.
See vmstat(8)
If si and so are mainly 0, then there really is no reason to add
more memory.

Theo
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