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    SubjectRe: swapping,any updates ?? Just wasted money on mem upgrade performance still suck :-(
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    In message "swapping,any updates...", <christian e> wrote:

    > Hi,all
    >
    > You might remember I had issues with massive swapping and wanted to know
    > whether I can control the amount of cache and buffers and so on.Well I
    > thought a mem upgrade would do the trick ,but no :-(
    > Not easy to explain to my boss that it still crawls with 512 MB mem and
    > that's the max limit in this laptop..Anyone found any solutions ?? Check
    > this out:
    > -snipped-

    I have just wiped my LKML folder in my mail client to free up some space, so I'm
    afraid I haven't read the beginning of your thread. Dunno if this will help but
    I have 384MB of RAM and I _don't have_ a swap partition. Hence I don't have any
    problem with swap. I've never had my machine start the OOM killer either, and I
    quite often run Win2k under vmware (using 128MB of that 384), while running
    Gnome/Nautilus (bloatware)/XMMS/xchat/Galeon/StarOffice (bloatware). Maybe you
    push your machine harder than I do, but I've never actually needed swap on this
    box... No doubt someone will tell me I'm crazy, but I'm not about to waste at
    least 384*2 MB of hdd space for something that my machine doesn't seem to
    need.

    [You may need to tell your distro to ignore the fact you don't have any swap,
    I've had to add a #Please, no swap line to the bottom of my /etc/fstab for MDK
    8.1 or it continues to warn me. The damned RH installer won't let you install
    without any swap (or am I missing a secret flag?).]

    Joe.

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