i used to experience this 'thrashing' thing a lot of time while running two
or three instances of netscape and after about an hour on the net with this.
And i could'nt even switch virtual consoles because the system became too
slow. I had 64m RAM and 32m swap in my machine at that time. I suppose the
low swap was the problem. I suppose the swap is also used to move lesser
used processes from the memory. and when these processes come back to life
you might experience general slowdown. maybe this is what he is refering to
when he says netscape loads faster without swap, or that he has not used a
128m PC before. Things generally improve with more RAM in Linux, unlike
woodendoz.
Correct me if i'm wrong. I'm still learning this fantastic OS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Faisal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] Kernel 2.4.1 and 128MB RAM, it worked
>
> > The PC seems relatively slower(May be because I haven't used it for
long)
> > but good part is that no swap and hence even netscape comes a lot
faster.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you saying that by not enabling swap,
you're
> are ending up with a faster machine ? I believe that you could use Linux
> without swap pretty comfortably, but when it starts thrashing - it'll
trash
> like hell. *Everything* will get slow. I once forgot to switch on swap on
a
> hand made installation, but wafter about 2 hours, when my system got
loaded,
> the thing slowed down tremendously. What got me interested is the fact
that
> since there wasn no swap, there shouldn't be much disk activity. But the
HDD
> light was burning like hell. Unfortunately, I couldn't really check it up
> because I couldn't log on (too slow). So I guess 'thrashing' wouldn't be
the
> right term to use...
> Anyways, if I'm correct, your swap wouldn't be used unless you needed it,
so
> what's the bit speed-saver by not enabling swap ?
>
>
> -Faisal.
>
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