Hi,
I am new to UNIX system admin so forgive me if this is a stupid question,
but can you have too much swap space ?
We have an Alphastation 500/333 with 160Mb RAM and 1Gb swap space. From my
experience with other platforms this seems a high ratio of swap to real. The
users are complaining of sluggish performance, it uses immediate mode at the
moment but I am going to change it to over-commitment mode which will
hopefully help, but should I reduce the swap size at the same time ?
The application used on the workstation is AVS, so any tips on optimising
AVS on an Alpha, in particular it's use of memory would be greatly
appreciated.
Cheers Chris.
Chris Wigglesworth
Computer Manager
Department of Physics
The Open University
Received on Mon Jan 19 1998 - 20:19:04 NZDT