Lyle Chapman wrote:
Has anyone got any ideas on how to speed up a swap space/drive,
Buy more RAM, it's cheap. Failing that, use the fastest part of the disk
for the swap partition - that's the outer edge, or the first few sectors.
I have a 3ghz, 2gb ram, 2gb swap on ata machine running FC3. I create a
lot of 3d material and run into swap usage with big scenes. This is ok
but after a while i end up having to restart the machine or turn the
swap off then on as it becomes extremely slow to do anything and at
times X will quit or the 3d app I am using.
Use the VM information in top or Gnome System Monitor to find out
exactly which app is eating all your RAM.
Would it be feasible to use a SCSI drive and split it up into multiple
2gb swap partitions or has anyone got a better suggestion.
Multiple swap partitions won't help if they're on the same physical
device. It will if they're on different disks.
Mike
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