Q about swap size

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I've been running Fedora on my old Thinkpad A22p (P-III/M w/512MB) since FC4 or before, upgrading from one version to the next using the same partition sizes. For F13 I increased the size of /boot, but kept swap at 1GB:
# 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
The last couple of releases have run agonizingly slowly with very high load averages (between 2.x and 10.x).

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:
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
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?

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL
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