[Hudlug] better PC specs

[Jim Jackson]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Paul Brook wrote:

> If you don't have any swap on your machine, that may be your problem.
> On a machine with half a gig of ram I suggest about the same amount of swap.
> It's not uncommon for applications to have allocated a large quantity of
> memory and only be actively using a small proportion of that. A lump of swap
> gives the kernel a graceful way of handling this.

You can check if you have swap by using the command line...

  swapon -s

in a term window. It will list what swap resources. If it doesn't work it
maybe that you don't have /sbin in your PATH environemnt variable, so
do...

  /sbin/swapon -s

cheers
Jim