Re: Controlling swapping

2003-02-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:40:19AM -0800, Roy Pluschke wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to control the aggresiveness of swapping. Yes. Buy more RAM. > Is there a way to tell the kernel not to swap unless required? This is already the way the kernel deals with it, why would it do it any other wa

Re: Controlling swapping

2003-02-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Roy" == Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Roy> Leave the computer alone for a half hour and try to resume Roy> working and a bunch of swapping occours. Note the programs do Roy> not take an "an absolute absurd time to come outta swap" just Roy> enough to be annoying. I

Re: Controlling swapping

2003-02-18 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:31:14 -0800 Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pentium III 450 with 128MB ram, kernel 2.4.20, 128MB swap. I generally run > Windowmaker and have open office, sylpheed, and gmt (terminal prog) running > continuously. I'm in and out of nedit. While I'm using these pro

Re: Controlling swapping

2003-02-18 Thread Roy Pluschke
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:53:17 -0800 Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:03:16 -0On February 18, 2003 11:25 am, Jeetu Golani wrote: > Hi, > > What's your machine configuration? I've used Linux with Kernels 2.4.18 and > 2.2.17 on a Pentium 133MHz machine with 48MB RAM (an

Re: Controlling swapping

2003-02-18 Thread Wilfried Essig
Am Dienstag, 18. Februar 2003 19:53 schrieb Roy Pluschke: > On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:03:16 -0800 > Hi, on console you could try using "top". Watch the top-lines for overall statistics - including swapspace. "M" will sort by Memoryusage. "?" will show you a short help. "man top" (on commandline) wi

Re: Controlling swapping

2003-02-18 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hi, What's your machine configuration? I've used Linux with Kernels 2.4.18 and 2.2.17 on a Pentium 133MHz machine with 48MB RAM (and before that 32MB) and 128MB Swap (and before that it had 64MB Swap) and I've used KDE and other WindowManagers and memory monsters such as StarOffice and multipl

Re: Controlling swapping

2003-02-18 Thread Roy Pluschke
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:03:16 -0800 "Charlie Reiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Is there a way to control the aggresiveness of swapping. My computer is > > on all the time with most of my most commonly used applications left > > open. If the computer is not used for a while it

RE: Controlling swapping

2003-02-18 Thread Charlie Reiman
> -Original Message- > From: Roy Pluschke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 9:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Controlling swapping > > > Hi, > > Is there a way to control the aggresiveness of swapping. My computer is >

Controlling swapping

2003-02-18 Thread Roy Pluschke
Hi, Is there a way to control the aggresiveness of swapping. My computer is on all the time with most of my most commonly used applications left open. If the computer is not used for a while it takes an annoying long amount of time to reload the open applications from swap (I may as well reload th