Using ' top ' you can see how much swap space your system is using now. If it is using more than 60 % of your currently available swap space then increasing swap space may increase the performance. Baiju Mathew. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: Rohit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 1:01 PM Subject: Re: [LI] Benifits of swap > > I have a swap area of 130 MB in the existing system with SuSe 6.3. > > If i increase the swap area to 300 MB. Will i get any increase in the > > performace. > > Depends on what you want to do with your machine. If you are hosting > yahoo on single machine, I can assure you it will help. If you are a > single user like mine, surfing net occasionally and with a usual uptime > of one day, then it is best that RAM+swap = 100 MB. I have 128 MB RAM > and 128 MB for Swap. My PC is using 1% of swap, and that is all. > > Performance boost may be caused by > > hdparm -c1 -d1 /dev/hda > > Supply values to c/d flags according to man and check the performance > using > > hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > Fiddle and you will get the best out of the most common system > bottleneck, the HDD. > > man hdparm will help too. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > LI is all for free speech, but this list was created for a purpose -- > to help popularise Linux in India. If your messages are counterproductive > to that purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LI is all for free speech, but this list was created for a purpose -- to help popularise Linux in India. If your messages are counterproductive to that purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
