Adding RAM

Wei-Yee Chan chanweiyee at gmail.com
Fri Oct 13 18:43:10 UTC 2006


The report looks fine to me.  Is your system running slower than before,
or is it just running slower than U expect it to be?  A memory upgrade
will not necessarily boost the speed of your system if U already had
enough RAM before the upgrade.  Utilised memory doesn't do anything to
enhance  your system speed.

If it's running slower than before the upgrade, then did U make any
changes to your OS recently?  Anything that U could remember?

The last thing I can think up of is that your old AMD CPU cannot cope
with the additional RAM, as it has too little internal cache.  That
could have caused the slowdown.  Try removing 1 of the memory strips and
see if there's a performance gain.


Dotan Cohen wrote:
> top - 18:13:25 up 3:30, 1 user, load average: 0.64, 0.75, 0.78
> Tasks: 107 total,   3 running, 104 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 12.6% us,  1.7% sy,  0.0% ni, 85.8% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
> Mem:   1002168k total,   634280k used,   367888k free,    37964k buffers
> Swap:  1413648k total,        0k used,  1413648k free,   367792k cached
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  6023 dotancoh  15   0  169m 102m  26m S  8.3 10.5  30:59.66 firefox-bin
>  4419 root      15   0 79192  38m 4648 S  3.0  4.0  39:03.96 Xorg
>  9348 dotancoh  15   0 32364  15m  11m S  2.3  1.6   0:01.20 konsole
>  9350 dotancoh  16   0  2192 1108  856 R  0.3  0.1   0:00.03 top
>     1 root      16   0  1564  532  460 S  0.0  0.1   0:01.38 init
>     2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
>     3 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
>     4 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
>     5 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.61 events/0
>     6 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 khelper
>     7 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread
>     9 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.06 kblockd/0
>    10 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
>   105 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
>   106 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 pdflush
>   108 root      18  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0
>   107 root      25   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kswapd0
>
> Dotan Cohen
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