<snip> > > > Short time ago, I was playing with the swapiness (sp?) commands and > > > currently run at 10; which was supposed to give a performance boost. > > > No go. My box has been getting slower and slower I am sorry that I missed the start of this thread, but assuming that the '10' to which is referred above is a operating system priority, to speed up the program execution remember that "higher" means smaller numbers. 19 is the lowest priority and -19 is the highest. (Another hangover from UNIX history.) > > I've never played with that. I'd only do so if you had special needs > > for it, and were familiar with how swap worked. This applies to me as well.*SIGH* dlg > Well as my machine performs more and more slowly with boot messages > about swap, I'd consider that a special need and the familiarity came > from http://www.linuxjournal.com/comment/reply/8308. > > > > > > and I even added 3Mbps from my ISP service and I think it is still > > > getting slower. > > > > I have no idea what that's supposed to do with swap. > > Absolutely nothing. But it can have an impact on performance. Place > several poorly configured applications and settings together and they > will, in concert, conspire to kill performance. > > > > > I am considering wiping the drive and trying Centos or something like > > > it that sounds a little more stable. > > > > You're the first I've come across having problems with swap. I'm more > > inclined to believe that it's a setup issue. > > Good possibility you are right. As MS eats the fatty tissue covering > the nerve cells in my Cervical spine and brain, loading an OS 5 or 6 > times is unfortunately my Friday or Saturday night out...Oh, well. > Besides astronomy and photography will kick in now that the weather is > becoming so nice. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
