On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 20:29 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Friday 2007-09-21 at 13:12 -0500, 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 see the swap is used (in top), every day, but not just a few kilobytes, and without having suspended the computer, then you should benefit.
Another indicator is if you see the ammount dedicated to "buffers" and "cached" is small with little free memory.
True, with top and free you'll see the amount of mem you're currently using. With smnd and someting like cacti or openNMS you can determine what has been used. Just a quick indication, if you leave a bunch of applications open (gimp, acrobat, evolution thinder/fire/bird) you might gain some speed. Remember the preloading ... For heavy complilation jobs, you'll certainly gain. (linux tries to use all mem as cache) HW -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org