On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 07:09:34PM +0000, Shlomi Shalem wrote: > Hey all, > First of all I want to thank you for your answers. I did the next things: > * I checked my initiation scripts, and 'swapon -a' appears there. > * My swap partition is perfectly defined in my '/etc/fstab'. > * I checked the +/- section as I was told to do (free), and you guys > were right, only 110MB are used out of 256MB. > * My swap partition is always empty. Seems a little strange for me anyway...
This is probably the optimal case. At least before the first nightly cron is run ... > > Well, it seems that everything works just fine. Yet, my computer is > running very (very!) slow. I had Linux on this computer before which > included older kernel and a lot more packages and progrmas running in > the back, and it was a lot faster... > What else can I do or check? What exactly does it do very slow? Could you provide timing for some specific actions? One shot in the dark: hdparm -v /dev/hda Any chance you don't use DMA? (Though this is IO and not exactly CPU) -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
