On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 18:23, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 05:13:35PM -0400, dvdpst wrote:
>> I found an way around that. I just make the swap space an little bit bigger.
>> Right now my swap in Kubuntu is 31GB with 8GB of ram. Works ok for me.
>
> That seems to be far too much swap, especially with 8GB of RAM.
> Is it really using that much? (You can tell by running top or free,
> that is, just typing the word top, or the word free, at a command
> prompt.
You beat me to it...
Also, more swap != faster computer it just means you can move more
pages in and out of RAM onto the hard disk. Really, if you're using
31GB of swap (or even if you're using swap at all, IMHO) it's time to
re-consider your hardware situation. Unless you're doing some real
hard-core things like rendering video composites or something
heavy-duty like that, then it's a little more understandable.
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