On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, LinuxLingam wrote:

> friends got this old celeron some 700 odd mhz type pc. with 64mb ram. he
> installed redhat8 on it, and it runs really slow, especially when it
> comes to openoffice.
> 
> he decides to upgrade ram to a nice 64 + 128 MB.
> 
> machine still slow. i remembered something about swap disk being
> optimised for ram. checked his swap. was earlier set to 200mb. do you
> think i need to change his swap to some other size to make the machine
> go a little faster. or is it a dead horse he just can't flog?
> 
> LL

It is recomended to have swap space double (or more ) the size of
physical ram....

./zahoor


_______________________________________________
ilugd mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Reply via email to