On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 13:12 -0500, Jeremy Figgins wrote: > I've seen a lot of "top" output thrown around on this topic and a bunch > of people have touched on this issue, but let me ask this question: > > I'm sitting right now in front of my 1gig machine. I have my normal set > of apps open: firefox, thunderbird, konsole, etc. How can I tell if I > would benefit from additional RAM? What command and what output do I > need to pay attention to?
free is a good command to use. If you notice a lot of swap being used often then that would be a good indication of needing more ram. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
