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Sorry for being so general, for not giving any real info. I'm new to |
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system monitoring, I just learnt about iostat and swapon -s, now about |
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vmstat. I mainly tried to catch anything unusual in top/htop. |
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Trying to be more specifically, my system is a core 2 duo, dual core |
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3ghz processor, 4gb of ram (now 2gb), ATI radeon HD4850 with 512mb of |
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vram. I used to play a lot on this box, now a lot less. On Gentoo, |
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when I play is some browser game or cowsay (it's in games-misc!), not |
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anything relevant. I'm using radeon open source drivers, by the way. |
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My main use, currently, is web surfing, firefox with LOTS of tabs, |
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email, social networks and random browsing. Firefox alone uses lots of |
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ram, almost always it's using more than a half GB, sometimes it passes |
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the 1gb mark. I also do Qt develop on this, but nothing heavy. No |
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virtual machines, no 3d rendering, no heavy processing, no |
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hibernation. |
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So, I'm just a basic common web surfer. In this case, can I say it's |
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at least SAFE to disable swap? I'll look into "last month's" thread on |
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this. |