hi,
Today, at work, my machine got really slow, although it's supposed to be a
good machine, Core Due/ 1 GB RAM, which is usually a good machine, I'm
running Ubuntu 7.10 on it, I checked the memory, I found out that I'm using
600 MB from the memory, and about 200 from swap,... like why? why is the
swap even used, isn't it supposed to be used only when I'm out of memory???,
that's how I think it should. so I tried turning off the swap ( sudo swapoff
-a ), and the machine worked like a charm, never experienced such
performance on this machine before.
I checked my laptop, (AMD Turion 64/ 1.5 GB RAM), well the swap is not even
touched. when I went home I checked my other machine, who has been running
slow for a while (Centrino Due/ 1GB RAM), which for a while I kept thinking
it's slow cause it's always low on space, it was only using 400 MB of the
RAM, and 300 MB from swap, turned off the swap, and it's running like a
charm, I haven't seen it that way for quite some time.
So, I was thinking, would it be better for systems which have enough RAM, to
be set without a swap space? to force everything to be in the RAM, any
ideas?
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Ala'a A. Ibrahim
http://guru.alaa-ibrahim.com/
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