Thanks, Boyd, Dave, Carlos, and Rajko, David C. Rankin wrote:
Regardless, you should see your full 2G, and if not, it might be worth a trip through the bios to see if there is any way to account for the lost memory. If not, then I would reseat the dimms, check again, the run memtest to see if I could uncover any other problems.
As I showed Rajko, I do have the full 2G available -- ksensors shows a very abbreviated list in its "meters". ------ Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
... Memory pressure at some point may have caused things to swap out. It's extra work to remove something from swap before absolutely necessary, so once you've gone into swap you'll have some in use for the remainder of the boot, probably.
Of course! I should have realized this myself.
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If it truly bothers you to have stuff in swap, you can use a quick swapoff/swapon to force the swap to be expired.
(Linux is very smart about memory management. If you are using swap, there's probably a good reason.)
Indeed, it was no bother; I was simply curious. It's been decades since my CS courses covered swapping, and I'd forgotten much of it. I likely got my education, too, before much of swapping technology was developed (in the early '70's, Structured Programming was just becoming The Big Thing, and Object Oriented Programming was a spark in the back of some genius's brain :-). ------------- Carlos, maybe someday I'll try the experiments you suggested, but life is short, and I have a lot to do besides dig deeply into the bowels of linux and its performance :-). I am saving your suggestions for a possible future. ------------ BTW, I despise Microsoft's practices as much as anyone, but I feel we should despise them for real practices and performance -- not stuff we dream up or hear about or would like to accuse them of. That was the point of my original message. jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org