Adding RAM
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Fri Oct 13 23:34:24 UTC 2006
On 13/10/06, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> > That Duron is 64 bit? Somehow I doubt that. I'll google it in a minute.
>
> Looks like I haven't a clue what I am talking about when it comes to
> chip technologies! I swear I saw something suggesting it was 64-bit, but
> I just googled it again and don;t see any references to 64-bit!
>
> > 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
>
> The load average is below 1.0 which means the system is performing
> pretty well. Not much cpu usage and no swap file usage. It also shows
> the system can see all of your 1GB.
>
> I'm afraid I'm at a bit of a loss to the cause of your problem. Can you
> tell whether the slowness occurs when trying to get stuff off the disk,
> or when programs are already loaded?
>
> If the latter perhaps there is some incompatibility with the memory you
> bought and your mother board (or the memory is faulty in some peculiar
> way). You could try putting the old memory back and see if the
> performance comes back again.
>
If the machine runsfor a day or two, then it slows down. If I don't
open any Gnome apps, then it's fine. However, I'm a heavy F-Spot user.
I just tried with my old memory- no improvment. No better, no worse.
Dotan Cohen
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