Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 10:57:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 10:57:15 -0500 Received: from host213-123-132-94.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([213.123.132.94]:1543 "EHLO ambassador.mathewson.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 10:57:09 -0500 Message-Id: <200201061556.g06FuxT09571@ambassador.mathewson.int> Subject: Re: swapping,any updates ?? Just wasted money on mem upgrade performance still suck :-( To: christian e , linux kernel From: Joseph Mathewson Reply-to: joe.mathewson@btinternet.com Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 15:56:59 -0000 X-Mailer: TiM infinity-ALPHA6-rc1 X-TiM-Client: 192.168.1.234 [192.168.1.234] Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In message "swapping,any updates...", wrote: > Hi,all > > You might remember I had issues with massive swapping and wanted to know > whether I can control the amount of cache and buffers and so on.Well I > thought a mem upgrade would do the trick ,but no :-( > Not easy to explain to my boss that it still crawls with 512 MB mem and > that's the max limit in this laptop..Anyone found any solutions ?? Check > this out: > -snipped- I have just wiped my LKML folder in my mail client to free up some space, so I'm afraid I haven't read the beginning of your thread. Dunno if this will help but I have 384MB of RAM and I _don't have_ a swap partition. Hence I don't have any problem with swap. I've never had my machine start the OOM killer either, and I quite often run Win2k under vmware (using 128MB of that 384), while running Gnome/Nautilus (bloatware)/XMMS/xchat/Galeon/StarOffice (bloatware). Maybe you push your machine harder than I do, but I've never actually needed swap on this box... No doubt someone will tell me I'm crazy, but I'm not about to waste at least 384*2 MB of hdd space for something that my machine doesn't seem to need. [You may need to tell your distro to ignore the fact you don't have any swap, I've had to add a #Please, no swap line to the bottom of my /etc/fstab for MDK 8.1 or it continues to warn me. The damned RH installer won't let you install without any swap (or am I missing a secret flag?).] Joe. +-------------------------------------------------+ | Joseph Mathewson | +-------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/