On 04/04/2020 21.06, Richmond wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 04/04/2020 17.20, Richmond wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 03/04/2020 18.40, Richmond wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
On 03/04/2020 10:18, Carlos E. R. wrote: > El 2020-04-03 a las 14:24 +0100, Richmond escribió:
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If you replace the rotating disk with an SSD and put the "swap" partition on it, the speed gain is tremendous. I have seen it, I know from personal experience. On 4 machines.
I happened to have a spare 160GB Hitatchi,
SSD or rotating rust? A rotating disk. I don't think it is rusty.
"Rotating rust" is slang for rotating magnetic disk :-D
so I sw... er... switched it for the 80GB Samsung which was in the laptop, and it has improved things considerably. Although it is still sw.... er.. paging I am still able to do things like alt-tab between tasks.
Now I wonder perhaps if that 80GB drive was faulty, i.e. getting hardware errors on read. I cannot check now.
Huh, that would be terrible, tremendous impact. It was terrible. Not so much poor performance as a major denial of service attack.
I have chromium, firefox (at google maps) and seamonkey running all at the same time and I am still able to type this.
How much ram? 1.5G? In that case, it is surprising.
1.5G yes. I now have quite a usable system.
It takes 30 seconds to write 1.5G to the disk, so I could not see any reason why paging would go on for several minutes at a time. But I didn't think to check for SMART errors.
If you cloned the installation, it would be on the log. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)