The last couple of releases have run agonizingly slowly with very high load averages (between 2.x and 10.x).# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000304c6 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 64 512000 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 64 14463 115658752 83 Linux /dev/sda3 14463 14594 1048576 82 Linux swap / Solaris
I just read http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html
which recommends a minimum of 2GB swap size for memory sizes up to 4GB. I've been using 2x RAM for swap size ever since the 2.6 kernel was introduced. At the moment (running 'yumex') 'top' indicates:
This indicates only about 30% of my 1GB swap is being used. Would increasing that to 2GB have any affect on the load average performance?top - 10:43:15 up 2 days, 6 min, 5 users, load average: 8.62, 6.84, 6.26 Tasks: 244 total, 7 running, 237 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 60.7%us, 23.5%sy, 9.2%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 5.4%hi, 1.3%si, 0.0%st Mem: 509800k total, 502624k used, 7176k free, 16280k buffers Swap: 1048568k total, 317372k used, 731196k free, 101944k cached
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL
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