Adding RAM

[Tony Arnold]

Dotan,

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 18:14 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 13/10/06, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > Can anybody else confirm this? Can I run that kernel on a Duron?
> >
> > Sorry, I missed that you were running on a 64 bit machine. Ignore my
> > comments about limitations on memory.
> >
> > I'm still curious to know what top is telling you about machine
> > activity.
> 
> That Duron is 64 bit? Somehow I doubt that. I'll google it in a minute.

Looks like I haven't a clue what I am talking about when it comes to
chip technologies! I swear I saw something suggesting it was 64-bit, but
I just googled it again and don;t see any references to 64-bit!

> top - 18:13:25 up  3:30,  1 user,  load average: 0.64, 0.75, 0.78
> Tasks: 107 total,   3 running, 104 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 12.6% us,  1.7% sy,  0.0% ni, 85.8% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
> Mem:   1002168k total,   634280k used,   367888k free,    37964k buffers
> Swap:  1413648k total,        0k used,  1413648k free,   367792k cached

The load average is below 1.0 which means the system is performing
pretty well. Not much cpu usage and no swap file usage. It also shows
the system can see all of your 1GB.

I'm afraid I'm at a bit of a loss to the cause of your problem. Can you
tell whether the slowness occurs when trying to get stuff off the disk,
or when programs are already loaded?

If the latter perhaps there is some incompatibility with the memory you
bought and your mother board (or the memory is faulty in some peculiar
way). You could try putting the old memory back and see if the
performance comes back again.

Regards,
Tony.
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