Re: Debian PC Requirements
I don't think that much swap in a single partition is being fully
used. As I understand it, linux can use a maximum of (I think) 128 mb
per swap partition. If you want more than 128 mb swap, you'll need to
create additional swap partitions. This doesn't really get at your
performance problems, but no more than 128 mb out of that huge swap
partition can be used.
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:56:02PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> seitvel@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
> > Derek, there is swap... I run "swapon -s" and it gave me exactly the
> > picture you mentioned, except that swap is hda6, and the size is
> > 979924 - which I think is close to 1 GB... However, the problem is
> > that "used" part is zero - why's that? Can I do something to make
> > linux use it? Computer is freshly restarted, so may be it is only
> > that there is nothing yet in memory to dump it to swap?
> >
> > Filename Type Size Used Priority
> > /dev/hda6 partition 979924 0 -1
>
> I'd have to say that's the case. You've got tons of swap space, and
> it's turned on, so my guess is obviously wrong :-)
>
> > However, once Gnome or particularly KDE is started, then it just
> > turns into hell - even Abiword starts somehow two-three times
> > slower than MSWord starts in Windows... Evolution starts in
> > probably 10 seconds... may be it is because those desktop
> > environments and programs are slow themselves and it does not have
> > to do anything with Debian.. I am a user primarily, so I noticed
>
> I wouldn't know, since I use neither of them, but I have noted Linux
> word-processing programs tend to be annoyingly slow to start. KWord
> sucks too :-( But otherwise, I have always found performance to be
> improved over any of the Windows variants.
> --
> derek
>
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