-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/01/08 16:29, andy wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 05/01/08 15:43, andy wrote: >> >>> Of 2863MB of SWAP, some 1881MB are being used. This is a capture of top: >>> >>> 15055 andy 20 0 34520 14m 4896 R 98 1.5 0:01.60 kbuildsycoca >>> 14950 andy 20 0 171m 88m 27m S 55 9.0 15:52.20 iceape-bin >>> 3890 root 20 0 123m 68m 8184 S 4 7.0 41:54.30 Xorg >>> 161 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 2 0.0 0:32.91 kswapd0 >>> 4881 andy 20 0 19776 5672 4460 S 2 0.6 11:38.49 xfce4-systemloa >>> 1 root 20 0 2032 548 520 S 0 0.1 0:05.08 init >>> 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd >>> >> [snip] >> >>> 791 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.08 usb-storage >>> 816 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0 >>> >>> and of free: >>> $ free >>> total used free shared buffers cached >>> Mem: 1003576 986260 17316 0 9868 139320 >>> -/+ buffers/cache: 837072 166504 >>> Swap: 2931852 1928848 1003004 >>> >>> How can I clear out SWAP so that it does not retain redundant memory >>> allocated pages? >>> >> >> # swapoff -a >> # swapon -a >> >> >>> I am thinking if SWAP can be cleared, my machine will >>> be more responsive with current pages written to SWAP, rather than >>> taking up space written by now obsolete processes. >>> >> >> I'm not sure that this will do what you want... >> > Perhaps not. However, my uptime is only 7 days with one user. Yet it > takes several seconds for my Xfce4 (light and fast) to respond. I am > unable to load a larger amount of RAM, and my system is sluggish even
The mobo is restricted, or you are a poor student? > with 1GB of RAM. What is a poor Deb Lenny user to do? SWAP seemed like a > logical culprit. > The virtual memory is some 798MB of 980MB and I have only KSCD, KMail, I always keep open an rxvt window running top(1), sorted by memory usage. > Konsole. OO.o Writer, IceApe, IceDove, and this IceDove composer windows > open. > > When I double click within Xfce on the /home directory icon, there is a > noticeable lag between clicking and a response. What causes this? Must I Maybe DMA is disabled? Maybe you've got sooo many files in $HOME that it takes a good long time for the XFCE file browser to load them all into it's memory list? I've got some Very Large directories, and it takes a Long Time for the GNOME file picker to do it's think. Went to hell around v2.16, I think. Maybe you've got a 4200RPM laptop drive? > reboot every few days so as to release memory to allow my system to be > more responsive? This isn't the GNU/Linux I know and love from my > Slackware days. What is wrong with my configuration? One action(?) that will help is to not use KSCD, KMail & Konsole. Since they are KDE apps, they require you to load a good chunk of KDE & Qt libraries in addition to the Gtk libs that are already loaded for XFCE, OOo, Iceape & Icedove. Using something less piggish than OOo will also help. (BTW, why run KMail & Icedove simultaneously? Isn't that a recipe for losing track of which app's folder a mail is in? Unless you run fetchmail, an MTA & an IMAPd.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIGj2GS9HxQb37XmcRArakAJ4+BAn0tB8yNFlhiVOw0+hP/itWCQCfY4pN zgn01sl95C+uqM3fXBsA814= =Lq0B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
