| Walt Mankowski on 17 Aug 2009 19:37:31 -0700 |
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:28:28PM -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > On Monday 17 August 2009 11:28:16 Austin Murphy wrote: > > I think you would be far better off to spend the money on a RAM > > upgrade and continue without swap. The 2 GB RAM upgrade for the EEE > > PC 1000 is only $30. > > http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.aspx?model=Eee PC 1000 > > I have done no quantitative testing, but qualitatively, the system seems a lot > snappier since I tried this. I had feared that the SD would be too slow to > help, but I guess it is faster than no swap at all. I assume by "this", you mean using the SD as swap, and have not (yet) bought extra RAM. > I am planning the upgrade to 2 gb, but plan to supplement it with the 4 gb SD > as long as it seems to be helping. > > Maybe it's optimistic perception on my part, but that works, too. I vote for "optimistic perception", because I really can't see how it can possibly make it run faster. It's always going to be orders of magnitude faster to use system memory than swap space. When you use swap, you by definition are trading more virtual memory space for slower speed whenever memory needs to go back and forth to swap. Are you sure you're even using the swap space? When you run top, does it say that any of it is in use? Walt Attachment:
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