On Sunday 24 April 2005 06:14, you wrote:
John Sowden wrote:
I am running a 48MB 133Mhz machine with Suse 8.0 It has worked fine on the net until today. The spped slowed down often to less than 100 bytes per second, and the hard drive thrashed for hours.
Questions: Should the swap partition be empty upon cold boot? If so what is the command to test it to see how full it is, and to empty it, and in which boot file should it go?
It took me 8 hours to look at about 30 web pages of a ecommerce site. I never was able to make my purchases. Sometimes, it would take 15 minutes to bring a page up. more ram is an easy answer, but this is an old machine, and 48MB is overkill for other work. what has changed?
Swap is normally managed transparently, so you don't have to do anything. I'd suspect your problem lies elsewhere. What does "cat /proc/meminfo" show?
cat /proc/meminfo reads: total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 46915584 45912064 1003520 0 2072576 20795392 Swap: 123367424 26206208 97161216 MemTotal: 45816 kB MemFree: 980 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 2024 kB Cached: 16228 kB SwapCached: 4080 kB Active: 25036 kB Inactive: 12892 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 45816 kB LowFree: 980 kB SwapTotal: 120476 kB SwapFree: 94884 kB mem.info lines 1-17/17 (END) --- John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901 U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail@americansentry.net http://www.americansentry.net