[Hudlug] better PC specs

[Jim Jackson]

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, michaelweaver wrote:

> but when I did swapon from the Gnome terminal I got the following:

> Filename type size used priority /dev/sdb5 partition 979924 36144 -1

The first number - 979924 - is ther size of the swap partition in
kilobytes, and the second number - 36144 - is the maximum that has been
used since you booted. So you have hardly touched your swap.


> 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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