-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-09-20 at 06:41 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
Ok,
Now I'm confused... After all of the discussion about ram size/swap size, I decided to try and make my 1G Toshiba P35 laptop start swapping stuff to the swap file.
I opened everything I could think of, 4 konsoles, 2 Open Office files, 3 Gimps, 2 Firefox, 2 Kongueror, Kjot, knotes, ksnapshot, kstars, Amarok, Thunderbird and several more, but the memory required, as shown by top, *never* exceeded 1G. The more I would open, the more slight slowness would occur, but I *always* had 13k - 15k of memory left and *nothing* was ever written to the swap file.
It probably was taken from the memory used for buffers. The command 'swapon -s' will also tell you the used swap and where. Just suspend the machine to disk, and get back: you will see that many things will remain swaped out. The computer is slow right after waking up, because needed things are not in ram and have to be read from disk. After a while, it is faster than before because it has got ridden himself of useless chunks in memory that has ben swapped out. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFG8mAitTMYHG2NR9URAtbJAJ9zCiBhVmz9xFgffw+9XOMgNx3i2QCfdnkH dB1qyS8tmsi/jjbz58/Tg8c= =b6v9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org