What if you had 2GB RAM and 4GB HD?

AC97Conquerer · 03-25-2005, 08:11 PM

How can you tell how much swap space you're using at the current time?

Code:

|root:~|: fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1        9118    73240303+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2            9119        9242      996030   82  Linux swap / Solaris
|root:~|: du -s /dev/hda2
0       /dev/hda2

amosf · 03-25-2005, 08:34 PM

win32sux · 03-25-2005, 08:40 PM

also, top will give you a "real-time" picture of your swap usage, among other things...

ilikejam · 03-27-2005, 03:53 PM

Hi all.

Have a look at what the kernel developers think:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/3000

Personally, I have 512MB of RAM, and 512MB of swap. That swap space has saved the day on more than one occasion when an app has had a serious memory leak.

Dave

syg00 · 03-27-2005, 05:41 PM

As I said earlier, swap is needed. The swappiness control is pretty gross - in that it affects the whole system.
For your average desktop user that want to bias their system one way or the other, it's possibly useful. I suspect most game players couldn't give a damn if O_office takes a while to swap back in, when they finish a game and have to get back to their homework.

There are kernel patch sets available that modify the current, and/or add new scheduler algorithms if you're feeling keen.
Not generally considered "stable", but features implemented will potentially make into the release stream at some point.

AC97Conquerer · 03-27-2005, 05:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by syg00
...when they finish a game and have to get back to their homework.

That is soooo me lol

Mr. New · 03-28-2005, 07:21 PM

my swap(512) is 8 times as large as my ram(64)
I use the swap all the time (I've been without it before, it goes slow and nothing opens)

sometimes I run both KDE and GNOME

side note- I think XFce4 panel gots a memory leaking problem, although it might have been a plugin for it that did. it was using 5 times more memory then it usually does earlier today.

but with 2 GBs of ram it would be so awesome 4 GB hardrive is plenty for me I'm only using 2.3 or so now