does anyone use Swap?

ejbest · 10-24-2004, 10:09 AM

increasing swap on a slow pc

Can someone post the 'skinny' on configuring swap. BTW the distribution is Fedora 2 and the PC is a Pentium 4 with 256mb Ram

what files do I edit?
what else needs to be considered?

thanks in advance

trey85stang · 10-24-2004, 10:23 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ejbest
increasing swap on a slow pc

Can someone post the 'skinny' on configuring swap. BTW the distribution is Fedora 2 and the PC is a Pentium 4 with 256mb Ram

what files do I edit?
what else needs to be considered?

thanks in advance

Swap is a partition dedicated solely to swap useage, it is generally created during setup. If the machine is going to slow I really doubt increasing swap is going to make it any better.

How much swap space are you useing now???

free -m will tell you how much swap you have now... post the output of the command.

Thanks
Trey

ejbest · 10-24-2004, 12:33 PM

Thanks Very Much! Here you go !

[root@ej01 root]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 250 246 3 0 23 72
-/+ buffers/cache: 151 99
Swap: 511 2 509
[root@ej01 root]#