>Ken Fuchs wrote: >> I just installed Solaris 8 on a system with 512MB of RAM, but suninstall >> suggested 295MB of swap. A few years ago, Sun may have increased its >> swap size to simply provide more space for its new Java based >> installation program, if I recall correctly. In this case, increasing >> swap space may not have had anything to do with increasing performance >> or reducing RAM requirements. Adam Maloney wrote: >When I installed Sol8 on my workstation, it had 256M (yikes!), and >suninstall recommended 1G of swap (I took defaults on everything and >just cruised through it). I've since upgraded to 768M, and this pig >still eats into it: 1GB of swap is quite an unexpected amount for a system with 256MB. I wonder if suninstall's suggested swap size is based on disk size? I installed on a 9GB and just let it auto-layout the whole drive just to see how it would partition up the drive. I didn't let suninstall touch the other drive. >Memory: 768M real, 157M free, 326M swap in use, 695M swap free >But Xsun seems to be allergic to free(), I think it's the pixmap cache >or something - it's currently using 121M and mozilla (another pig) is >using 92MB. Those two are the worst, but Gnome and Nautilus and >Evolution are up there too - I'm about to switch back to CDE and pine, >just so I don't eat into swap all the time. Could there be a memory allocation bug? This reminds of the now several year old KDE kicker bug where it slowly allocates more memory to itself unnecessarily. Whenever my system got sluggish, I'd kill kicker and restart it and everything would be fine again for several days. kicker would slowly allocate about 100MB to itself for no good reason over the course of several days. Sincerely, Ken Fuchs <kfuchs at winternet.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list