On 07/11/2010 12:29 PM, JB wrote: > JB<jurek.bajor<at> gmail.com> writes: > >> ... >> 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 > Hi, > Please disregard my previous message - it has some typos (high temps here :) ). > > Would you please take a look at 'top' output (Ctl-M - sorted by memory use) > and share with us the system lines plus following 10 lines. Note that > the display may fluctuate, so wait for a while to understand what is really > happening and then capture the output for us. > > As a general rule, your min swap size should be: > RAM size plus 20% > This is due to "save to swap" requirement for hibernation. > JB > > > > > But for running many apps that use a large dataset, you want at least 2X physical ram of swap space - albeit, running such a huge app on systems that are starved for PHYSICAL RAM can lead to extremely poor performance at the least - and the system with thrash from excessive page-in's and page-out's and full tilt swap-in's and swap-out's. AT the worst, the system will lock up. -- 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
