On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:47:17PM +0200, Nejko Zidarjev wrote: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 at 12:56:47, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > > J. Zidar wrote: > > > Hello. I have a very peculiar problem with my Debian install. > > > > > > It seems to me that Debian is not using my ram at all, because I can > > > hear and see a lot of disk activity happening, which could only mean > > > that the system is using the swap partition (size 2GB). > > > > Or it could mean that the disk controller isn't working in it's most > > preferable mode (UDMA whatever). How much RAM do you have? What does cat > > /proc/meminfo say? > > > > A > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have 1GB of RAM. > > Output of cat proc/meminfo: > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: > Mem: 1058750464 253161472 805588992 0 38518784 68460544 > Swap: 1998733312 40136704 1958596608 > MemTotal: 1033936 kB > MemFree: 786708 kB > MemShared: 0 kB > Buffers: 37616 kB > Cached: 53172 kB > SwapCached: 13684 kB > Active: 30624 kB > Inactive: 107316 kB > HighTotal: 131008 kB > HighFree: 30764 kB > LowTotal: 902928 kB > LowFree: 755944 kB > SwapTotal: 1951888 kB > SwapFree: 1912692 kB > > Jernej Zidar >
Well, you appear to be using negligible swap. You also appear to have about 800MB free RAM. So it looks like the slowness you are seeing is _probably_ not a swapfile issue. Do you know if your hard disks are operating in the fastest possible mode? (clue: look through the output of dmesg) Aside from that, why do you have a 2GB swapfile anyway, as you don't appear to even be close to using all of your physical RAM? A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
