On Friday 21 September 2007 16:25, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Fri, 21 Sep 2007, by joe@tmsusa.com:
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If you're using any swap at all, you would benefit from additional RAM.
top or free could tell you about swap usage.
Not important at all.
What you should be looking at is the amount of swap blocks in and out. See vmstat(8). If si and so are mainly 0, then there really is no reason to add more memory.
True. The problem is not how much swap is in use (as long as it doesn't run out), but rather how much swap _traffic_ occurs. If it's a little and / or occasional, there's no problem. If it's a lot and / or ongoing, it's going to make your system slow and CPU utilization low. That's called "thrashing."
Theo
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