[rhn-users] Re: Low on RAM memory warnings

[snodx hotmail com]

Dear Edson Manners,

Thanx for your response

Edson Manners wrote:

>You may have done too much work in this case. I simply use the 'top'
>command. If, under normal circumstances, you ar using swap memory then I
>usually think it it time to upgrade. You know that you really need to
>upgrade if you run top right after a reboot with only your default
>programs and services running and you're using swap

Now that the interesting concept of swap has been introduced here is
some additional info of my system:

The swap memory is set to 1285192 Kb which is 1255 MB approx

Is this the correct/appropriate size for a 128 MB RAM machine? If not
how can I alter the swap size?

I checked out the output of 'top' The SWAP field is showing that a process
called 'X' is using 64 MB of Swap and gnome-terminal is using 4 MB of Swap

So since SWAP is not showing zero in some cases is it time for an upgrade?
Or is the case that its OK for processes to use 64 MB + 4 MB of swap size
out of 1255 MB? Is there a benchmark, a kind of threshold, that this percentage
of swap size is allowed, above this a RAM upgrade is required?

Sorry for keeping you engaged.

Eagerly awaiting responses.

SNODX