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 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.
Well...I would say it's a good thing as long as my disk heads don't start trying to access my hard disk more often than they would if my memory was being used to the maximum extent possible. I mean if I have more than enough memory left over in RAM why would Gentoo want to go paging stuff in and out of swap? When and if needed. It would seem more in line with the reason for lot's of RAM to just do everything in RAM if Gentoo can do that. I especially don't understand why the swap is being used now as opposed to when I first installed Gentoo and for at least a month or two afterwards when it was not used at all. 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 intracacies of using swap so this may be much easier said than done. Carlos -- www.internetsuccess.ca -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
