Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes:

> On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:37:53PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Burn a dvd. Or any other job that pushes a few gig around the fs.
>
> I have 1GB ram and I burn multiple full DVDs a week, and I still don't
> see much swap use:
>
> # free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       1022200    1003080      19120          0     417560      39724
> -/+ buffers/cache:     545796     476404
> Swap:      2097144       4644    2092500
>
> That's with 40 days uptime and having burned probably 12 DVDs in that
> time.  Then again I don't actually have anywhere near 1GB in use so the
> memory system is hardly under any pressure.
>
> Len Sorensen

After 22 days:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1025580    1014156      11424          0      13740     614136
-/+ buffers/cache:     386280     639300
Swap:       979832     204780     775052

Galeon eats a lot of ram and old tabs get swapped out after a while.

MfG
        Goswin