[TriLUG] fedora 7 & 8 slowness?

[jonesjc]

Justis,

No, I haven't priced ram and my main point is, I really should not have to add ram, since earlier distros worked well.

Someone earlier suggested modifying swappiness, which I have tried and that definately does make a difference. Once I modify swappiness to about 30, all applications seem to respond at a reasonable level.

Now somehow, I need to make that permanent.

Each time I reboot, swappiness is back to 60.

Thanks for your comments and suggestions. 

Let's consider this thread closed.

jcj

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Justis Peters <jtrilug at indythinker.com>
Reply-To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
Date:  Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:31:56 -0400

>James c. Jones wrote:
>> I recently took Ubuntu & mepis off of my laptop and installed fedora 7.
>> Luckily I still have the install cd's for it.
>>
>> I am hoping that there is a solution so that I won't have to do that. (
>> other than adding memory. )
>>   
>James,
>
>Have you actually priced the memory?  I was shopping for a laptop 
>battery last night and, despite those still being outrageously 
>expensive, I was nearly shocked at how little a gig of RAM cost.  $15 / 
>$20 / $30 for 256MB / 512 MB / 1GB.  I could barely find an A/C adapter 
>for prices that good.
>
>Maybe your laptop has different prices, but it's worth a look.  Perhaps 
>$20 could just solve the problem and you're done.  Best of luck.
>
>Kind regards,
>Justis Peters
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