Fri, 21 Sep 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > 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're using any swap at all, you would benefit from additional RAM. > > top or free could tell you about swap usage.
Not important at all. What you should be looking at is the amount of swap blocks in and out. See vmstat(8) If si and so are mainly 0, then there really is no reason to add more memory. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 10.2 + Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel 2.6.20 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
