[newbie] Swap file not being used since replacing disk

2004-03-12 Thread Oliver Marshall 
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.

Any idea of where the setting is that determines where Mandrake looks
for the swap file and how I go about changing it ?

Olly

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Re: [newbie] Swap file not being used since replacing disk

2004-03-12 Thread Greg Meyer 
On Friday 12 March 2004 09:44 am, Oliver Marshall wrote:
 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.

 Any idea of where the setting is that determines where Mandrake looks
 for the swap file and how I go about changing it ?

This is defined in /etc/fstab
-- 
/g

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Re: [newbie] Swap file not being used since replacing disk

2004-03-12 Thread Raffaele Belardi 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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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Re: [newbie] Swap file not being used since replacing disk

2004-03-12 Thread Greg Meyer 
On Friday 12 March 2004 09:44 am, Oliver Marshall wrote:
 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.

 Any idea of where the setting is that determines where Mandrake looks
 for the swap file and how I go about changing it ?

This is defined in /etc/fstab
-- 
/g

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