Re: swap

[Joe Hart <j.hart@orange.nl>]

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Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:15:31 -0400
> Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
[snip]
>> To generalize the problem, given that the software can't be changed, at
>> what point do you start to look at either a bigger single computer or a
>> cluster that looks like a bigger computer?  For me its just an
>> intelectual exercise; I went from a 486 with 32 MB swap to an Athlon
>> with 1GB in a single bound.  That Xorg makes _that_ swap really burns me
>> up.
>>
>> Doug.
> 
> Xorg swaps with a GB? I run Xfce with 512MB and I rarely see swapping;
> even on my 196MB machine I didn't see much swapping. What else are you
> running besides X?
> 
> Celejar

I have to concur.  I have 1GB and never see any swapping.  I was
actually contemplating removing the swap, but decided to leave it
because disk space is cheap.  On another machine that only has 256MB of
ram, it does occasionally use some swap space, but even on that machine
it is rare.

I run several apps at the same time.  Currently there are 105 processes
running, although most are sleeping according to top.

Joe
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