[PLUG] Morning Slugishness
Richard C. Steffens
rsteff at comcast.net
Wed Jul 26 20:14:01 UTC 2006
Brent Rieck wrote:
> I had a similar experience with my old computer when I had too much swap
> configured and when I reduced my enormous swap to something close to my
> ram size it was much more responsive in the mornings. Do you have a
> giant swap drive?
A memory is returning: some years ago, when I had spare time, but just
as it was about to disappear, I added memory to achieve 192 Mb.
Somewhere around that time is also when I installed SuSE 9.1 on this
machine. I expected the install process to totally reformat and
partition the drive, but for some reason (either I said yes when I
should have said no, or visa versa) the old partitions were kept. Later,
I consolidated some of them and then added the second swap partition.
IIRC, the first one is unused, but don't quote me on that. I believe the
recommendation was to create a swap partition that is double the
installed RAM, but don't quote me on that, either. Here's what fdisk has
to say:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 12 96358+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 13 1027 8152987+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 13 35 184716 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 36 521 3903763+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 522 570 393561 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda8 571 1027 3670821 83 Linux
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
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