Re: speed of X
Pete, I mentioned windows because I understand it exhibits both problems. It doesn't use a large swap space and it can slow down with the management overhead. I haven't noticed any difference in speed with Linux when I give it a 128mb swap even if 20 mb is enough. In other words, a system with only 8mb ram runs about the same as long as there is enough swap space with Linux. Windows swapping seems to be oriented around some ratio between physical and virtual memory. On 4 Aug 1997, Pete Templin wrote: > On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Paul Wade wrote: > > > Linux will use a swap partition of up to 128 meg. You can add swap files > > if you need more. I haven't heard anything about slowdowns. Maybe you're > > thinking about windows swap usage and performance? Somebody correct me if > > I'm wrong. > > I know that Linux (or at least Debian, but this sure seems like a Linux > issue) can use multiple swap partitions (I think up to 8, perhaps even 16, > being up to almost 128MB each). I had two 120M swap partitions at one > time, but removed the second due to IDE performance problems (I had a > cron-scheduled process that would heavily access the slave drive while > swapping to the master drive, and due to my configuration, this was > happening on BOTH IDE controllers at the same time. Yuk!!!). > > I think you can have up to 16 swap files, and I think swap files can be up > to 16MB each, but I'm not sure. I was unable to create a swap file in a > IDE-based Multiple Drives (md) RAID-0 array, but YMMV. +--+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +--+ + http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html Now shipping version 1.3.X + +--+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: speed of X
On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Paul Wade wrote: > Linux will use a swap partition of up to 128 meg. You can add swap files > if you need more. I haven't heard anything about slowdowns. Maybe you're > thinking about windows swap usage and performance? Somebody correct me if > I'm wrong. I know that Linux (or at least Debian, but this sure seems like a Linux issue) can use multiple swap partitions (I think up to 8, perhaps even 16, being up to almost 128MB each). I had two 120M swap partitions at one time, but removed the second due to IDE performance problems (I had a cron-scheduled process that would heavily access the slave drive while swapping to the master drive, and due to my configuration, this was happening on BOTH IDE controllers at the same time. Yuk!!!). I think you can have up to 16 swap files, and I think swap files can be up to 16MB each, but I'm not sure. I was unable to create a swap file in a IDE-based Multiple Drives (md) RAID-0 array, but YMMV. Pete -- Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst Computer & Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
speed of X
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- is there any way of speeding up X? It seems to run significantly slower than Windows '95. Both are on my Cryix 166+ w/ 16 RAM. In a few days I'm going to add 64 megs of RAM, will that speed it up much? My server is XFree86_S3... - -Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM+VAhfMRUhbnJu3lAQFsagL+OYvL0II36lkj3+uc4Vte7V9HCQ9V5gG0 XhYcFYiv6rt5zUS5G4iAx51GtswqxBnqqg1sD/xLwVHh67QhyJ8Pzx3QyT1FM4+k o6H+fwUQAltFa+qN2YxmM+Z03RHZM5AI =x/0r -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: speed of X
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > is there any way of speeding up X? It seems to run significantly slower > than Windows '95. Both are on my Cryix 166+ w/ 16 RAM. In a few days I'm > going to add 64 megs of RAM, will that speed it up much? My server is > XFree86_S3... I'm using XF86_SVGA (I have a virge/vx card, svga is supposedly faster) on a Cyrix 166+ with 64 megs of ram, and it's _faster_ than windows. Check out the SVGA server (it has "new" virge support in Xfree3.3) and get your RAm, ougta help. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBM+VfP32vcvpqPzRdAQFwYwP+JhJeHELwd+oepA9XJGm14ndfXPIYhHkN N+/NwBv1oPffL18YGN7CQYqNIA8lFhZ4N/qFPBeVl2cUNxe/+xcZY0cCRq+O8kq6 kufRUbyw9YDAIGai2/GbvKjdPqfyupw+EWdlK9U2vepSbIfcIgNJbaLi+PI+iLxA 2esTKTj17PI= =CDN7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: speed of X
On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > is there any way of speeding up X? It seems to run significantly slower > than Windows '95. Both are on my Cryix 166+ w/ 16 RAM. In a few days I'm > going to add 64 megs of RAM, will that speed it up much? My server is > XFree86_S3... Adding 64 meg of ram should speed it up tremendously. I have found a 486 with 48 or more meg to be very usable for running all sorts of applications (such as Word Perfect7). Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: speed of X
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have a 64MB swap disk.. I know hard drives are about 100x slower (at least) .. anyhow I heard something about having at swap disk over 16 megs will slow things down.. and Linux won't even use past 16 megs.. is this true? - -Paul On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: > On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > is there any way of speeding up X? It seems to run significantly slower > > than Windows '95. Both are on my Cryix 166+ w/ 16 RAM. In a few days I'm > > going to add 64 megs of RAM, will that speed it up much? My server is > > XFree86_S3... > > Adding 64 meg of ram should speed it up tremendously. I have found a 486 > with 48 or more meg to be very usable for running all sorts of > applications (such as Word Perfect7). > > Shaya > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM+XiYvMRUhbnJu3lAQEknAL/eev0euFp3ucO/j0b27YrKqOMXRLahKtJ i6w0NLyTPQawxUk+Xi0T+u8RwRmNYgKGGY2VhhERimVLbMEqc+X4cRoAcxYC1Uqe R2qAc4o5xPF8piIPsJRrYcd/7nRdtXxC =fnaA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: speed of X
On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > I have a 64MB swap disk.. I know hard drives are about 100x slower (at > least) .. anyhow I heard something about having at swap disk over 16 megs > will slow things down.. and Linux won't even use past 16 megs.. is this > true? I tried to make a 256MB swap, but it would only use 128MB of it so I split it into two 128MB swap partitions. Seems to work fine, but with 64MB RAM I don't swap much anymore anyway. ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: speed of X
Linux will use a swap partition of up to 128 meg. You can add swap files if you need more. I haven't heard anything about slowdowns. Maybe you're thinking about windows swap usage and performance? Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > I have a 64MB swap disk.. I know hard drives are about 100x slower (at > least) .. anyhow I heard something about having at swap disk over 16 megs > will slow things down.. and Linux won't even use past 16 megs.. is this > true? > +--+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +--+ + http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html Now shipping version 1.3.X + +--+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
