On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 01:58:16PM -0800, Eric House wrote: > I need to decide whether to upgrade my Debian laptop to 48 or 80 > meg (from the current 16). > > Is there any way to log how much swap is currently getting used during > the activities I run all the time?
Try vmstat & free > Any other advice on how much is enough? This machine is for personal > use (e.g. Pilot software development) and will never be a server. If you run X, I'd say 80, if you just run in text mode 48 should be fine. You may get better battery life with 80 since you'll probably hit the disk less. Keep in mind that any "free" memory you have is used to buffer executables and cache the filesystem... The more the better. On the other hand, if your chipset can't cache more than 64MB, going to 80MB might actually make some things slower. I'm not sure if telling the kernel "mem=64M" on an 80MB machine would be enough to fix that problem or not. Regards, Jeff
