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whenever i look at gkrellm it says i have 2024 of 2024mb of swap free. I was wondering if i need to activate my swap partition. i have never seen it be anything but 100% free.
i see this over and over again.. you WANT 100% swap free!
swap space is only for when your system is out of memory and it needs to resort to using the hard drive for 'memory' / swap space.
im sure you can imagine how much slower a hard disk is than RAM. dont worry about having 100% free.. heck, if you have plenty of RAM, and under extreme load, there is still 100% swap free, you might as well delete the swap partition and make it useful for file storage.
How much RAM do you have? Perhaps it's enough that you haven't really challenged your system to the point that swap is needed.
You can test that with some memory intensive task, such as graphics editing with the Gimp, or editing sound files. See if swap gets used in such situations.
If you have two gigs of DDR2 ram, your wasting 1.5G of swap (or more). Next time you divy up your HDD, drop the swap (or a great deal of it anyway).
And another thing, how are you running DDR2 with an AMD?? The AMDs that support DDR2 aren't out till this summer with the new AM2 socket. If your actually running DDR2 through a DDR slot, you wasted alot of money.
Last edited by Penguin of Wonder; 05-03-2006 at 11:48 PM.
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