On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 14:36, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > > Hmm.. swap is 512 MB (twice the RAM), which I thought was OK. But > > thanks. I just want to make sure that nothing 'weirds" are going on with > > my machine. > > Doesn't matter how much (or little) swap you have. What matters is how > much free memory you have, including swap. If you run out, you run out. > There's no magic number. > > Take a look at top or procinfo. If you're close to maxing out your swap > space, you have issues. Either add more RAM, more swap, or limit your > memory consumption (e.g. run xfce instead of kde, or pine instead of > Evolution). > > You can add a swap file instead of a new swap partition if you can't > reallocate your partitions. Read the mkswap man page for instructions on > creating a swap file inside an existing file system. > > -- > "Of course I'm in shape! Round's a shape, isn't it?"
While I am not as extreme as my esteemed college to suggest you run pine or xfce, I will suggest that you kill Mozilla if it's running. I recently had a bad dimm so I went from 320M to 256M of ram, since then I have had Evolution killed several times by the OOM Killer. [Terminator of backward cattle.=) ] I just shutdown mozilla, or restart it frequently and that solved my problem. I recommendation is get more memory. It is pretty cheap, you can by 256M of PC2100 DDR for about 70.00 now, or at least, I can. Look about the country side. -- VB programmers ask why no one takes them seriously, it's somewhat akin to a McDonalds manager asking employees why they don't take their 'career' seriously.
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