Adding RAM

[Clive Menzies]

On (13/10/06 15:12), Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 13/10/06, SteVe Cook <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Not sure if it would make any differnce, but would the size of the swap
> > partian effect the speed in any way.  Ubuntu recommends 2X ram size.
> 
> Goo thinking. As the machine only had 512 MB RAM when I installed
> Ubuntu, it got a 1 GB swap partition. Now that it's got a full GB of
> RAM, it may want more swap. I'll need to add a swap file, as I'm not
> about to repartition the drive.

Before you allocate more swap, what does top report?  In theory more RAM
should result in less swap being used.

Regards

Clive

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