Linuxguy123 wrote:
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 00:43 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
On 09/30/09 00:21, quoth Linuxguy123:
What difference in speed will I notice in doing this ?
Evolution seems to be faster, but 'free -m' isn't showing that I am
running out of memory or anything. I generally have ~1600 MB free now.
I gained 1 GB, so before it would have been ~400 MB free.
Now I should increase the size of my swap file partition from 2GB to
4GB...
I just did this last week. Works fine. But I just have one question:
You say your situation is that you're now running at around 1.6G free mem. So
why bump the swap area? You can do it, but the whole point was to use more
memory. If you didn't run out of swap before then you're even less likely to
run out now, unless you now plan on doing things that you didn't do before.
I'm running 1.6 GB free when not running any of my heavy duty
applications like ufraw (batch), digikam, eclipse (sometimes 2 or more
instances), gimp, a couple browsers, evolution and a couple Open Office
apps.
Did I mention that I want to start editing HD video ?
Which program are you using (planning to use)?
I need 8 GB of RAM !
BTW: The PAE kernel seems to run faster.
Having extra memory certainly make things run faster, the actual CPU is some
tiny bit slower when doing context switches and on cache misses. You can measure
the CPU effect, you can *feel* the boost from the extra memory.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
