Adding RAM

[mark mace]

--On Friday, October 13, 2006 1:41 PM +0200 Dotan Cohen 
<dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13/10/06, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Have you run top in a terminal window and does that give you a clue to
>> why the machine is slow? It shows memory and swap usage and will also
>> show any processes hogging the cpu.
>
>> Is the slowness accompanied by a lot of disk activity?
>
> The disk light blinks about twice a second when the machine is not
> loaded. That seems about on par with other systems that I've seen.

Is it possible the swap partition is too small?  I think the default on 
Ubuntu is for the swap partition to be double the size of RAM.  I can tell 
you I don't see that level of hard drive activity on my machine.

I'm running 1gig of ram and Ubuntu 6.06.  However, I'm running an Intel 
system not a Duron.

mark

>
>> I believe you need to run the 686 kernel to recognise 1GB of memory. The
>> 386, IIRC is limited to about 750MB, although I don't see why that
>> should make the system particularly slow.
>
> Can anybody else confirm this? Can I run that kernel on a Duron?
>
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