--- On Sun, 7/11/10, Robert G. (Doc) Savage <dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > [snip] > > > 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: > > [snip] You need more RAM, not more swap. 512MB is not enough. That's why the last few releases have been running progressively slower: They're running out of RAM and hitting the swap. If you can upgrade to 1 or, better, 2 or more GB RAM, your system will run much faster and won't need the swap as much. My system (Athlon64 X2 2.7GB, 512MB swap--that's right MB!, F12-64-bit) has 4GB RAM and rarely uses the swap. B -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
