Re: RAM Swap Speed

2008-04-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
But to my surprise the workstation ran faster--but before adding RAM it did NOT make use of the swap-partition and after the big RAM chip of course not too (checked it with #top). but more files are cached. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: RAM Swap Speed

2008-04-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
herbert langhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Honestly, I would never think that adding RAM to a comp with still unused space left could speed it up. That's because it doesn't have unused RAM. There are plenty of things that can be stored in RAM which don't need to be moved to swap if the RAM is

Re: RAM Swap Speed

2008-04-21 Thread Bruce Cran
Jon Radel wrote: herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, recently I had to add some more RAM on a workstation. Was 512MB before and is 2GB now, the reason was to give some graphic apps more space. But to my surprise the workstation ran faster--but before adding RAM it did NOT make use of the

Re: RAM Swap Speed

2008-04-21 Thread Jon Radel
Jon Radel wrote: herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, recently I had to add some more RAM on a workstation. Was 512MB before and is 2GB now, the reason was to give some graphic apps more space. But to my surprise the workstation ran faster--but before adding RAM it did NOT make use of the

RAM Swap Speed

2008-04-20 Thread herbert langhans
Hi Daemons, recently I had to add some more RAM on a workstation. Was 512MB before and is 2GB now, the reason was to give some graphic apps more space. But to my surprise the workstation ran faster--but before adding RAM it did NOT make use of the swap-partition and after the big RAM chip of

Re: RAM Swap Speed

2008-04-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:28:47PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, recently I had to add some more RAM on a workstation. Was 512MB before and is 2GB now, the reason was to give some graphic apps more space. But to my surprise the workstation ran faster--but before adding RAM it

Re: RAM Swap Speed

2008-04-20 Thread Jon Radel
herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, recently I had to add some more RAM on a workstation. Was 512MB before and is 2GB now, the reason was to give some graphic apps more space. But to my surprise the workstation ran faster--but before adding RAM it did NOT make use of the swap-partition

Re: RAM Swap Speed

2008-04-20 Thread herbert langhans
Hi Jon, all kosher here, I have my FreeBSD workstation and will put some more RAM into it. Just found it out on a penguin.. Honestly, I would never think that adding RAM to a comp with still unused space left could speed it up. Was just a coincident to find it out. But it clearly explains what