On 07/11/2010 12:29 PM, JB wrote:
JB<jurek.bajor<at> gmail.com> writes:
... top - 10:43:15 up 2 days, 6 min, 5 users, load average: 8.62, 6.84, 6.26 Tasks: 244 total, 7 running, 237 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 60.7%us, 23.5%sy, 9.2%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 5.4%hi, 1.3%si, 0.0%st Mem: 509800k total, 502624k used, 7176k free, 16280k buffers Swap: 1048568k total, 317372k used, 731196k free, 101944k cached
This indicates only about 30% of my 1GB swap is being used. Would increasing
that to 2GB have any affect on the load average performance?--Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL Hi, Please disregard my previous message - it has some typos (high temps here :) ).
Would you please take a look at 'top' output (Ctl-M - sorted by memory use) and share with us the system lines plus following 10 lines. Note that the display may fluctuate, so wait for a while to understand what is really happening and then capture the output for us.
As a general rule, your min swap size should be: RAM size plus 20% This is due to "save to swap" requirement for hibernation. JB
But for running many apps that use a large dataset, you want at least 2X physical ram of swap space - albeit, running such a huge app on systems that are starved for PHYSICAL RAM can lead to extremely poor performance at the least - and the system with thrash from excessive page-in's and page-out's and full tilt swap-in's and swap-out's. AT the worst, the system will lock up.