On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Tom Hudak wrote: > >I got 512Mb RAM and 1.0Gb of swap. So I doubt it. > GAH!!!! Get rid of that much swap!!! with 512 Meg of ram you shouldn't even > touch the swap! (Remember, the whole idea behind it is that RAM was expensive, > much more so that disk space for equivalent sizes so dump some stuff that was > intended for RAM to disk when it's not a high priority etc.) > > That much swap WILL affect your system performance. Ideally you want 1.5x the > amount of ram you have, that's 768, but since you have half a gig, you might > want to consider going with 256M swap or less. Or none at all. Hmm.. isn't the rule of thumb to have double the swap than you have memory? IIRC, there are some good reasons for this, that I'm sure Carl can detail when he gets back from vacation. Oh, and if you work here, 512mb isn't enough. You run out quick. :) -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500