sluggish performance Jaunty

[Steve]

On Tue, 05 May 2009 14:40:18 -0400
"H.S." <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:37 PM, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
 
> > OK, that's better.
> > 
> >             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> > Mem:           375        370          4          0          5        101
> > -/+ buffers/cache:        263        111
> > Swap:          870        245        624
> 
> Your system is using quite a bit of swap. Using swap is slower than
> using RAM.
> 
This is my machine with 384MiB
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           371        366          4          0          3         83
-/+ buffers/cache:        279         91
Swap:         1035        248        786

...and swappines set to 10.  I've been trying different figures and this does seem to lessen sluggish behavior.

-- 
Steve <Yorvik.Ubunto at GoogleMail.com>