clay wrote:
> Dennis wrote:
>> ...
>>>
>>> ct@wimp:~$ top
>>>
>>> top - 23:21:04 up 26 min, 3 users, load average: 0.54, 1.09, 0.78
>>> Tasks: 141 total, 1 running, 139 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
>>> Cpu(s): 3.0%us, 1.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 83.3%id, 11.1%wa, 0.5%hi,
>>> 0.7%si, 0.0%st
>>> Mem: 1035624k total, 979608k used, 56016k free, 12728k buffers
>>> Swap: 2152668k total, 17800k used, 2134868k free, 580408k cached
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Why do you have 2 gig of swap with only 1 gig of ram? A half gig would
>> have been plenty, by the 'old school' standard.
>>
>> Try 'ps aux', it will give you a snapshot of what is using what at the
>> given moment.
>>
>> Does your machine feel sluggish? If not then you are probably not
>> swapping much. With one gig of ram you really shouldn't be swapping
>> much unless your are messing with audio or video apps. If you are not
>> swapping then it is fine for your ram to 'appear' to be 'used up'. It
>> is most likely free just not reallocated as such yet. As apps need ram
>> it will be reallocated as needed.
>>
>> Would mozilla.dev.platforms.linux be a better place to discuss this?
>>
>> Dennis
>
> It's the old (obsolete) Windows standard of swap=2xram.
> I've used up to a half gig of swap on occasion. When MythTV is
> commflagging, transcoding, etc. and hellanzb is unraring something, it
> gets a little poky... when load average is up around 21.00.
>
> Thanks for reminding me about ps aux. I can see Adobe reader is no
> better in Firefox on Linux than it is in Windows. View a PDF in Firefox
> and acroread stays running after the browser is closed.
Stays running AFTER the browser is closed if I recall correctly!


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