Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system really slowing down and using swap file more than ever!

2003-06-06 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Thursday 05 June 2003 11:16, Norberto BENSA wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${Zack Gilburd} > Wednesday 04 June 2003 02:37 am > > > as I stated before, I have 1 > > _gig_ of ram and almost always 75%+ is free. However, almost *always* my > > swap usage is at 50%. > > Heavy usage, eh!

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system really slowing down and using swap file more than ever!

2003-06-06 Thread Norberto BENSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${Zack Gilburd} Wednesday 04 June 2003 02:37 am > as I stated before, I have 1 > _gig_ of ram and almost always 75%+ is free. However, almost *always* my > swap usage is at 50%. Heavy usage, eh!?... What do you do with your box? Video/music editing? Regards, No

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system really slowing down and using swap file more than ever! SOLVED!

2003-06-05 Thread David
I would only worry about the swap if like what was happening to you before; slowing down. You fixed that though. I have 512MB of Ram and 500Meg swap and it is hardly used either. I am not going to worry about it unless stuff starts going slow. Right now I have mozilla, kmail, gkrellm, konqueror,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system really slowing down and using swap file more than ever! SOLVED!

2003-06-05 Thread Carlos C. Gonzalez
Hi all, I am happy to report that my memory problems have been SOLVED! Yipee! I tried just about everything suggested with nothing unusual showing up to my limited Linux ability. I then did one last thing...I rebooted. Boy oh boy was my system messed up or what. I couldn't even get X to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system really slowing down and using swap file more than ever!

2003-06-04 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 22:22, Carlos C. Gonzalez wrote: > I hope I am not being too picky here but it seems to me that swap should > not be used at all if there is ANY RAM that can be used in it's place > available. Which on my computer there is. Of course I am not that familiar > with the intrac

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system really slowing down and using swap file more than ever!

2003-06-04 Thread Phil Barnett
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 3:45 pm, Carlos C. Gonzalez wrote: > Hi everyone, > > When I first installed Gentoo about 3 months ago I was impressed with it's > speed running on my Pentium III 500 MHz computer. Now I find myself > sometimes tapping the desk with my fingers so to speak waiting for certai

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system really slowing down and using swap file more than ever!

2003-06-04 Thread Carlos C. Gonzalez
Hi Zack, On June 3, 2003 04:33 pm, Zack Gilburd wrote: > On Tuesday 03 June 2003 12:45, Carlos C. Gonzalez wrote: > > Any suggestions would be most appreciated. The use of the swap file is > > one of those things that especially bugs me since I got the high RAM to > > prevent it's use altogethe

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system really slowing down and using swap file more than ever!

2003-06-04 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 12:45, Carlos C. Gonzalez wrote: > Any suggestions would be most appreciated. The use of the swap file is one > of those things that especially bugs me since I got the high RAM to prevent > it's use altogether. For example I am running KMail and the KDE System > Guard (alo

[gentoo-user] Gentoo system really slowing down and using swap file more than ever!

2003-06-04 Thread Carlos C. Gonzalez
Hi everyone, When I first installed Gentoo about 3 months ago I was impressed with it's speed running on my Pentium III 500 MHz computer. Now I find myself sometimes tapping the desk with my fingers so to speak waiting for certain things to happen. Lately the swap file is getting used mor