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HI
I have the problem that I just installed debian on colinux and I can
not get swap to work at all. First I thought it is a colinux problem
but I can mount the swap and it shows up when checking available mem.
But when I use KDE and launch firefox in there the User interface is so
slow that it is imposible to use. I had on the same machine everything
alredy running but lost it. And I know that swap was working back than.
I even added swapfile on root to rule out that the problem is caused by
mounting
Here are some infos about my machine
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
$free
Swap doesn't have to be used for it to be working correctly. Think of it as standby memory, when no swap is in use, that means your memory is being utilized properly.
thanks for your answer but does not seem to help. I set its prio to -1. I went a little further to see if my swap is working and found out that it is working just fine with ...
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/cobd1 bs=1M count=10
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
10485760 bytes transferred in 0.177071 seconds (59217805 bytes/sec)
->trickykid
I know that but when sing KDE and your mem looks like the one below the machine should be swaping
...................total.............used...........free...... shared....buffers.....cached
Mem:......515936.........512176.........3760...........0.........14724.....374272
-/+ buffers/cache:.......123180.....392756
Swap:.....262136..................0.....262136
.... so to sum up my machine is still super slow when using KDE which I would love to use. But the reason why the machine does not want to swap is still not found.
swap is a complex think
It's not really possible to state that the machine should be using swap.
swap is not really just extra memory.
swap is backing storage for anonymous non media backed data and that's all it is.
so if you are not running programs that generate alot of anonymous non media backed data then no swap.
the question should be how can i get or can someone help me get KDE to not run like crap.
the answer might lie in reducing total processes running
optimizing kernel.
trimming kde features.
whatever.
Think of it this way, when my swap is being used, I look into the reasons on why it was used, as my current setups should not use swap at all in 99% of the cases..
But yeah, if KDE is running sluggish, look into other reasons. Swap usage for KDE is not going to help the slowness.
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