On Friday 21 September 2007 16:25, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: > Fri, 21 Sep 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > ... > > > > 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.
True. The problem is not how much swap is in use (as long as it doesn't run out), but rather how much swap _traffic_ occurs. If it's a little and / or occasional, there's no problem. If it's a lot and / or ongoing, it's going to make your system slow and CPU utilization low. That's called "thrashing." > Theo Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
