[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


-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens



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