Re: [Ilugc] about swap area
On 3/6/2009 7:38 PM, nandha kumar wrote: 1. how to utilize the swap memory completely( i hv created a swap of 1280 mb and ubuntu is in 40 gb hdd) bcoz most of the time my swap is idle. Use programs which use more than 640MB of memory. Idle swap is good since it means you have enough memory for your workloads. 2. can swap can be used as a virtual graphics card to improve my graphics if possible please tell me how to do it?? Don't think that is possible under X Window System. Regards, Senthil ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] about swap area
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 19:38 +0530, nandha kumar wrote: > hai to all. > I m nandha doing second year in saveetha engg college.. > I hav a system with intel 845GV - p4 - 640 mb RAM - 40+20 gb hdd > i m using dual os - windows xp and ubuntu 8.04 . after switching to ubuntu i > m not at all using windows.. > > now i have a doubt about swap area. > > my doubts are > > 1. how to utilize the swap memory completely( i hv created a swap of 1280 mb > and ubuntu is in 40 gb hdd) bcoz most of the time my swap is idle. > > 2. can swap can be used as a virtual graphics card to improve my graphics > if possible please tell me how to do it?? > Swap space is just space on your hard-drive set up to compensate for when you run out of RAM. Accessing that is as slow as accessing your hard drive, so less swap used is better. I do not think any graphics card currently available can use hard-drive space to augment VRAM, and besides that isn't a very good idea at all. On the Intel 845 board, you should be able to increase the amount of main RAM that is allocated to your on-board graphics in the BIOS. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] about swap area
> I m nandha doing second year in saveetha engg college.. > I hav a system with intel 845GV - p4 - 640 mb RAM - 40+20 gb hdd > i m using dual os - windows xp and ubuntu 8.04 . after switching to ubuntu > i > m not at all using windows.. > > now i have a doubt about swap area. > > my doubts are > > 1. how to utilize the swap memory completely( i hv created a swap of 1280 > mb > and ubuntu is in 40 gb hdd) bcoz most of the time my swap is idle. > > My friend, Swap memory is your virtual memory. When your linux box run out of primary memory (RAM) then it started using swap partition (area ). If you system is not using the swap area, it really good, since it show you have enough RAM on board. Utilizing the swap partition for your graphics memory is not an ideal option. Swap partition grows on your secondary memory (HDD), is comparatively very very slow to the RAM. Its no way possible to used swap as per you mentioned in post. cheers RJ . ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] about swap area
hai to all. I m nandha doing second year in saveetha engg college.. I hav a system with intel 845GV - p4 - 640 mb RAM - 40+20 gb hdd i m using dual os - windows xp and ubuntu 8.04 . after switching to ubuntu i m not at all using windows.. now i have a doubt about swap area. my doubts are 1. how to utilize the swap memory completely( i hv created a swap of 1280 mb and ubuntu is in 40 gb hdd) bcoz most of the time my swap is idle. 2. can swap can be used as a virtual graphics card to improve my graphics if possible please tell me how to do it?? thanking you ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
