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foobar

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Swap tuning !!
« on: 28 July 2002, 15:05 »
I'm still running my idioticly slow 133 mhz box.
Now i've assigned 130 MB of swap space to it.
When i run 'top', top says that it only uses 20 of the 130 available ... can i alter something so that it will use more swap space ?
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Swap tuning !!
« Reply #1 on: 28 July 2002, 15:26 »
why would you want it to use more swap space?, storing it in memory will give your programs a lot faster access. were you running any programs when you ran top? if not, then your swap probly handles a lot more when running anything remotely intensive
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Swap tuning !!
« Reply #2 on: 29 July 2002, 17:54 »
just do as I did: stick in 1Gb of memory and do away with the swap file completely :)

then again ... I don't think a 133Mhz box's bios can even address that much memory  :D

[ July 29, 2002: Message edited by: BadKarma ]

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