[Hudlug] better PC specs

[michaelweaver]

Don't know if I have written this correctly as there are lots of spaces
between the items and it is harder to count spaces when using Braille
but when I did swapon from the Gnome terminal I got the following:
Filename type size used priority /dev/sdb5 partition 979924 36144 -1 
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 21:43 +0100, Jim Jackson wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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