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Hello
I have a laptop with 708 MB of Ram
My question now is.
I whant to install Slackware 11 on this laptop. Do i need a SWAP for this mount of ram ?
If YES - why,
If NO - why
( kind of newbie )
Thank you !
it all depends what you are going to use it for. if you're going to use memory intensuve stuff on it then yes you'd be wise to supply some, but really... that much ram if it's just a personal use i probably wouldn't bother...
it all depends what you are going to use it for. if you're going to use memory intensuve stuff on it then yes you'd be wise to supply some, but really... that much ram if it's just a personal use i probably wouldn't bother...
I will use it for personal use, however i am a programmer and i will use intensive MySQL database , Java and other programming stuff
The last line just started to sound like you'll want swap. Actually what happens if you don't have swap is this: when all your RAM is used, your system most probably begins killing processes in order to free up some memory to keep the whole thing running. So, if you don't want your database thingies die or java programs drop in the middle of all the fun, consider adding at least some swap space, or if you dislike having a swap partition, doing the trick so that you're using a swap file rather than a partition.
The last line just started to sound like you'll want swap. Actually what happens if you don't have swap is this: when all your RAM is used, your system most probably begins killing processes in order to free up some memory to keep the whole thing running. So, if you don't want your database thingies die or java programs drop in the middle of all the fun, consider adding at least some swap space, or if you dislike having a swap partition, doing the trick so that you're using a swap file rather than a partition.
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try with free
free [options]
Display statistics about memory usage: total free, used, physical, swap, shared, and buffers used by the kernel.
Don't surprise if your system display small amounts of free mem because some os activities (such as disk cache) "eat up" memory which will be released as soon as you'll need it (unused ram is wasted ram ).
Cheers, Enrico.
Last edited by crisostomo_enrico; 10-30-2006 at 07:52 AM.
is there any command to see how much is the free rams, including the swap, like ctrl+alt+del in windows?
Open up a console window and type "top" without the quotes
You will see a list of all processes, and memory status, just like in Windows but this time in text mode
Hope it will help you
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Do i need SWAP
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