Re: Is my swap too big? Pc running slow
It's probably not too big, no. With 256M of RAM, you can expect a lot of swap activity and that will generally slow your machine. If at all possible, I would try to upgrade to at least 512M of RAM. Changing the swappiness value may help as well. Edit /etc/sysctl.conf and add the following line:
Then run:
That should make the machine prefer RAM to swap and will insure that it stays that way every time you reboot.
Don't try to make something "fast" until you are able to quantify "slow".
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