On Nov 26, 2007 12:20 AM, Ala'a Ibrahim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? > > -- > Ala'a A. Ibrahim > http://guru.alaa-ibrahim.com/ > > >
If you can guarantee that you will never use more virtual memory than the physical memory you have then by all means, turn swap off :) Zaid -- --------------------------- Netiquette -> http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html Netiquette Nazi -> http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/warriorshtm/netiquettenazi.htm --------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jolug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
