When your Linux server starts feeling sluggish, you might benefit from looking at your swap space and gauging whether it’s adequately sized for your system’s workload. Fortunately, Linux has some ...

When it comes to system administration, one of the earliest decisions to be made is how to configure swap space. Many readers already are thinking they know what to do: throw in as much RAM as you can ...

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One of the first things new Linux users often get confused about is the need to create a disk partition for swap space. After all, neither Windows nor Mac OS X make you do any such thing, what's the ...

Swap space, the hard drive portion used as temporary memory by Linux systems, is often one of the first stumbling blocks for anyone trying out their first installation. Luckily, Linux.com has posted a ...

Not sure what's hogging your Linux PC's resources? There are lots of tools for getting information about your system and ...

</pre><BR><BR>No swap is used at all, and the machine is clearly running out of gas.<BR>Another oddity is that 'system' processes seem to be hogging the CPU:<BR><BR ...

I'm in a bind here View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif.<P>At my workplace there is (was by now) a shared workstation that I had installed Mandrake 8 on ...