Originally posted by eddiecatflap:
..my sis was wondering if it's nessc.. i thought since x is so efficient at vm its not needed..
..will it speed up with a full 1 gig ?
..its on 512mb at the mo.
It's worth it if you don't have enough memory in your system currently
It really depends on how many apps you're running, and how often you're paging. I'd suggest you open terminal and run 'top'.
You'll see a line like this (5th line):
VM: 2.19G + 61.9M 15044(0) pageins, 1634(0) pageouts
That second number is how many swap outs have been done (and in parentheses is # in the past second, I believe). If that second number is over 100,000 for example, and the machine hasn't been running without a reboot for a couple weeks, then you may want to consider more RAM.
As you can see I've had 1634 "pages" swapped to disk in 5 days, with 1 GB of RAM. That's pretty minimal
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