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 (along with KDE of course) and that's it for programs! Other than > the usual background processes. And my computer is using 462 KB's of RAM > with 53 KB free while using 20 KB of my swap file. It NEVER used to run as > slowly as it does now and it NEVER used to use any of the swap file.
Using the swap file is *NOT A BAD THING*. I have 1 gig of RAM and my swap usage is currently at ~256MB (50%). Use of the swapfile is a *good* thing. Swap is a place where idle processes go so they don't take up more RAM (in a nutshell). Because your box starts swapping, this *does not* mean that it is running out of memory. This is how Linux used to act in the earlier kernels, but does not act like that now. -- Zack Gilburd http://tehunlose.com
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