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WHats your Swap Size?

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voidmain:
Yeah, and not having optimum performance is better for looking at porn anyway. The slower the better.  

Calum:
well my swap space is 178Mb i think, or thereabouts, against 128Mb of RAM. I put the swap partition right at the edge of the hard drive, as per X11's advice (faster access times apparently).

Something bottlenecks inside my computer though, i don't know if it's the bus speed or the chip's internal speed or what, but something makes it transfer data slowly, and open up programs slowly. It just does things slowly for an 850Mhz computer. but that's another discussion. (and before a windoid should chime in, it behaves at least as slowly using windows)

voidmain:
In your case you should probably would want a little more swap since you only have 128MB. 256MB should have been about right. Now I'm not saying that this will make your system twice as fast because I don't think it will. What are your readings from a few successive runs of this:

# /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hda

Calum:
i'll post tomorrow, not at home right now - posting from windows 2000 computer at work!  :(

Calum:

quote:[root@localhost calum]# which hdparm
which: no hdparm in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin)
[root@localhost calum]#

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i'll have to look for it on my install CDs, so bear with me please!  

[ November 12, 2002: Message edited by: [calum@localhost]$ ]

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