After swapping my 10gb for a 40gb disk and finally getting it working, I
noted that the machine seemed really slow. When I looked in the system
monitor in Gnome, it showed that 0MB of my swap file was being used and
the RAM was sky high. It wasn't like that this morning.
What you describe is quite normal. Linux uses all the available memory almost immediately as soon as you start using apps. Swap space usage depends on the installed RAM memory. On my 512Mbyte system, *free* RAM is currently (and normally is) less than 10Mbyte, while used swap space is less than 20Mbyte. That does not mean the system is slow.
If top (or whatever the gnome monitor) correctly shows the amount of swap space you effectively allocated is available, I would not worry.
Did you check /var/log/syslog for any errors in detecting the hard drive, instead?
raffaele
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