Slackware 13.1 and Memory Issues
As my previous post state I just moved from Fedora to SLackware 13.1... My question is:
Does Slackware 13.1 requires more than 4GB of ram? I have built a very generic custom kernel to enable HUGEMEM64 and my ram gets eaten up in less than two days and the system starts swapping... Is this normal? Thank You! |
No, that doesn't sound normal at all. What process is taking up all the RAM?
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Thanks for the reply...
Info Center has it as: 4% Free Phisical Memory 78% Disk Cache 3% Application Data I am not sure how to get a snap shoot of the memory usage per application but as info center it does not seem that the applications are been a problem is more of the Disk Cache... ?!? |
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You have more than 4G of memory?
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Here you go guys:
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I all ready compiled my new kernel to support hugemem64 and is all working the issue I am having is that my memory is getting sucked all to hell :) |
Well your post above shows normal memory usage (excluding cache, only 503M of memory is being used). If it craps out again and uses swap, post the output of the same commands.
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Thank you all for the help.
As soon as it starts swapping out ill post back. Thanks! |
Why do you have so much swap space anyway? My laptop running Slackware64 13.0 with 4GB of RAM had 1GB swap. I noticed that it never used it though, so in Slackware 13.1 I got rid of swap. I guess it all depends on what you do with it.
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On our laptops I keep the swap partition just over RAM size. On point though, the OP stated he would eventually upgrade the RAM to 8GiB, if he plans to hibernate, that's in line with what most docs say. I'll reserve my opinion about needing that much RAM on a 32bit OS, not my system ;) Hopefully the OP has read the docs and disclaimers on using CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G on a 32bit system. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/15/423 |
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Maybe for now I should try HUGEMEM4 to see how it runs till I upgrade to 8GB of RAM. And as for the swap question... It has been best practice for many years to use double your RAM for swap. I use 9GB just for the hell of it but it should be 8. Thank You. |
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