Re: Q about swap size

On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 22:59 -0400, Robert Myers wrote: > It all depends on how you want to use your time. If you want to > re-tweak your system with every new release, I suppose that's one > option. Sometimes there are sentimental reasons to keep old equipment running. The Armada has been runni

Re: Q about swap size

On 07/11/2010 07:59 PM, Robert Myers wrote: > It all depends on how you want to use your time. If you want to > re-tweak your system with every new release, I suppose that's one option. > > If you want a solution that doesn't depend on constantly proving your > Linux manhood, consider: > > 1.

Re: Q about swap size

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:56 PM, birger wrote: > > > You most certainly have something bogging down the system. > Agreed, and I still don't think anyone has enough information to know what it is, except for the OP. > > Linux still rocks on old equipment once you disable the cpu and memory > hog

Re: Q about swap size

On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 11:10 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > top - 10:43:15 up 2 days, 6 min, 5 users, load average: 8.62, 6.84, > 6.26 > Tasks: 244 total, 7 running, 237 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 60.7%us, 23.5%sy, 9.2%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 5.4

Re: Q about swap size

On 07/11/2010 03:42 PM, Robert Myers wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Konstantin Svist > wrote: > > > > Don't run Gnome/KDE desktops - they're memory hogs. Instead, try > XFCE - it's much lighter and faster (fewer features, though). > > > Just shows how

Re: Q about swap size

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > > > Don't run Gnome/KDE desktops - they're memory hogs. Instead, try XFCE - > it's much lighter and faster (fewer features, though). > Just shows how much the world of Linux has changed that it took so long for that advice to appear. "R

Re: Q about swap size

Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 09:01 -0700, JD wrote: >> On 07/11/2010 09:10 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: >>> I've been running Fedora on my old Thinkpad A22p (P-III/M w/512MB) >> With only half a gig of ram, you will end up thrashing like crazy. >> Of course you will h

Re: Q about swap size

On 07/11/2010 12:29 PM, JB wrote: > JB gmail.com> writes: > >> ... >> top - 10:43:15 up 2 days, 6 min, 5 users, load average: 8.62, 6.84, 6.26 >> Tasks: 244 total, 7 running, 237 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie >> Cpu(s): 60.7%us, 23.5%sy, 9.2%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 5.4%hi, 1.3%si, >>

Q about swap size

JB gmail.com> writes: > ... > top - 10:43:15 up 2 days, 6 min, 5 users, load average: 8.62, 6.84, 6.26 > Tasks: 244 total, 7 running, 237 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 60.7%us, 23.5%sy, 9.2%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 5.4%hi, 1.3%si, 0.0%st > Mem:509800k total, 502624k used,

Re: Q about swap size

On 07/11/2010 09:10 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: I've been running Fedora on my old Thinkpad A22p (P-III/M w/512MB) since FC4 or before, upgrading from one version to the next using the same partition sizes. For F13 I increased the size of /boot, but kept swap at 1GB: # fdisk -l /de

Q about swap size

Robert G. (Doc) Savage peaknet.net> writes: > > ... > top - 10:43:15 up 2 days, 6 min,  5 users,  load average: 8.62, 6.84, 6.26 > Tasks: 244 total,   7 running, 237 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie > Cpu(s): 60.7%us, 23.5%sy,  9.2%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  5.4%hi,  1.3%si,  0.0%st > Mem:    50980

Re: Q about swap size

On 07/11/2010 10:23 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 09:01 -0700, JD wrote: >> On 07/11/2010 09:10 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: >>> I've been running Fedora on my old Thinkpad A22p (P-III/M w/512MB) >> With only half a gig of ram, you will end up thrashing like crazy

Re: Q about swap size

On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 09:01 -0700, JD wrote: > On 07/11/2010 09:10 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > I've been running Fedora on my old Thinkpad A22p (P-III/M w/512MB) > With only half a gig of ram, you will end up thrashing like crazy. > Of course you will have a high load factor. > How about

Re: Q about swap size

--- On Sun, 7/11/10, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > I've been running Fedora on my old Thinkpad A22p (P-III/M w/512MB) > since FC4 or before, upgrading from one version to the next using the > same partition sizes. For F13 I increased the size of /boot, but kept > swap at 1GB: > > # fdisk -l /

Re: Q about swap size

On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 11:10 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > This indicates only about 30% of my 1GB swap is being used. Would > increasing that to 2GB have any affect on the load average > performance? If you have enough, you have enough. If you don't, your system will run out of memory. Th

Re: Q about swap size

On 07/11/2010 09:10 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > I've been running Fedora on my old Thinkpad A22p (P-III/M w/512MB) > since FC4 or before, upgrading from one version to the next using the > same partition sizes. For F13 I increased the size of /boot, but kept > swap at 1GB: > > # fd

Re: Q about swap size

Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > top - 10:43:15 up 2 days, 6 min, 5 users, load average: 8.62, 6.84, 6.26 > Tasks: 244 total, 7 running, 237 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 60.7%us, 23.5%sy, 9.2%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 5.4%hi, 1.3%si, > 0.0%st > Mem:509800k tot

Q about swap size

I've been running Fedora on my old Thinkpad A22p (P-III/M w/512MB) since FC4 or before, upgrading from one version to the next using the same partition sizes. For F13 I increased the size of /boot, but kept swap at 1GB: # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 12003412