On Monday, October 30, 2006, 8:33:44 AM, Miark wrote: M> On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:29:03 +0000, stuart wrote:
>> Both my laptop and pc installations were done using default >> settings. They both have a swap file of over 1GB. Is this right? I >> have been reading that it should be a max of 512 or twice the ram >> (320 laptop 384 pc). M> A gig sounds quite excessive to me. It won't hurt you have that M> much, but it's a waste of space if you're short on space. If you M> have the space, don't worry about it. If you don't I'd do a test to M> see how much you might actually need. If you use Firefox, you might want to have LOTS of memory available. Firefox is a HUGE memory hog. For example, I now have FF running for about a day, ONE window, only TWO tabs open, and have visited about 10 sites total. It is using about 512 megs. Typically, if I use it more, it will eventually use up all memory and crash. I enlarged my swap space [1G] and added more memory [1G], and that postpones the FF crash - but does NOT prevent it. Eventually it will die. Opera, by contrast, has been running at least a week, has five windows open, each with perhaps 15-20 tabs, and has been used on perhaps a hundred sites, with several downloads. It is currently using 171 megs. M> Run whatever window manager you want, and open all the programs M> that you might use at once, such as a mail client, web browser, M> music player, calendar programs--whatever. Then use free (on the M> commandline) or kinfocenter > Memory to see what you're system is M> actually doing. Then drop the swap partition size accordingly. Try htop in a console and you can see who is using what. -- rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
