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Today's Topics:

1. Re: What is with swap? (Neil Fraser)
2. Creating VMware machines (Mike Yates)
3. Swap issue (Mike Yates)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 08:47:29 +0000
From: Neil Fraser <nfraser@nadtechnology.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] What is with swap?
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I presume you have a 64 bit distribution or a 32bit with a PAE kernel?
if not that will be your limiting factor in addressing the full 8GB
RAM.

HTH

Neil

On 16/03/2016, Andrew <andrewsoltau@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have what seems to be a swap problem which I do not understand. 8gb of
> ram. Running up to date mint mate 17. Main drive is ssd so I put the
> swap on a hdd which also holds the main data. Once I have a load of
> firefox windows running the system gets incredibly sluggish, and when I
> check on the system monitor swap is being used, always a very small
> amount. But the usage of the ram never goes over 4.something out of 7.7
> gb. I have set swappiness to 0. Is the cure - masses more ram? - cunning
> system hack? - use a different browser? - none of the above?
>



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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:26:18 +0000
From: Mike Yates <bblug@fonehelp.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath LUG <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [bristol] Creating VMware machines
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Have you installed the "Desktop", Martin?
If you start by playing around with free version, you don't get so tangled
up in the hugely over complicated commercial product. The free (not trial)
one not only creates but automatically installs systems from ISO image DVDs
with a pretty straightforward GUI. It can use all the CPU virtualization
extensions too.

Have fun
Mike
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:37:42 +0000
From: Mike Yates <bblug@fonehelp.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath LUG <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [bristol] Swap issue
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Andrew wrote:
> But the usage of the ram never goes over 4.something out of 7.7gb.

Maybe a silly question but are you using a 64bit OS?
(x86 = 32bit, x86-64 or AMD64 = 64bit)

32 bit OS's won't normally use over 4gb RAM and occasionally are sluggish
if more is present. There are workarounds but 64bit systems are a
no-brainer.

Have fun
Mike
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