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The Friday 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?
If you see the swap is used (in top), every day, but not just a few
kilobytes, and without having suspended the computer, then you should
benefit.
Another indicator is if you see the ammount dedicated to "buffers" and
"cached" is small with little free memory.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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