Still waiting for swap prefetch

Still waiting for swap prefetch

Posted Jul 26, 2007 2:14 UTC (Thu) by h2 (guest, #27965)
In reply to: Still waiting for swap prefetch by mgb
Parent article: Still waiting for swap prefetch

>I can remember a time less than a decade ago when a system didn't need a couple of gigs to run Linux well.

Don't worry, it's still fine, running 2.6.22.1 kernel on old hardware, with a light desktop, xfce4, running lots of little server things, nfs, vnc, streaming, etc, the system using... 90 mB ram, out of 192 mB total. I originally had 512 in it but it never got remotely close to using it so I pulled it out and put back in small sticks I had lying around. Once in a while it uses swap, a tiny bit, but not often.

For full desktop like kde or gnome, 256 is what you need to avoid swapping.

And more for dev work, vmware, heavy graphics, and so on. Just because you put in 2 gig doesn't mean you use it, this box has 2 and it's using 3/4 gig with 50 or so apps open on 8 virtual desktops. But fire up a vmware or vbox install or two and you're getting closer to 2 gigs.

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