[K12OSN] is FC5 smp kernel slow

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 06:53, Burke Almquist wrote:
> Yes, I'd definitely be using more ram if you are actually hitting the  
> swap.
> Is the swap just cached stuff or are you actually hitting it?

You can check swap activity by installing the sysstat package
and running something like 'vmstat 5' in a window while you
do some typical operations.  The numbers in the si and so
columns show the swap in/out activity.  0 is good.

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  Les Mikesell
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