Comments on: RAM up Your SWAP for Improved Stability

By: Swappiness.- Cambiar el intercambio entre la swap y la RAM « Travesuras

Swappiness.- Cambiar el intercambio entre la swap y la RAM « Travesuras — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:25:13 +0000

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By: the_guv

the_guv — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:08:17 +0000

thanks Curt

@Don. Whether or not you need to repartition depends on what partitions you have in place but, unless you have an OS running virtual OSes within using, say, VirtualBox, you will need one partition per OS (multi-boot).

HAVING BACKED UP STUFF, you could change partition sizes, add partitions and more using the partition tool that's bundled with the Ubuntu installer, else burn a great partition manager called gParted to disk and run that on a fresh boot to manage partitions. Personally, I don't bother with dual or multi-boots any more, I just run Linux as my main machine with VirtualBox (search this site for tutorials) within and call up Windows or whatever when I want it (you could do the opposite, with Windows as the main OS and virtual Linux).

By: Curt Corum

Curt Corum — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:40:21 +0000

Thanks,

This was a very useful howto...

In combination with some thread on virtualbox vm.swappiness=10 has speed up my guest os dramatically!

By: Don Rose

Don Rose — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:35:55 +0000

I have a very current release of Linux Ubuntu and it said you do not need to repartition to install. It failed to install. So I need to know how to shove the WinXP partition over, decide how much space is needed for a minimal Ubuntu partition. Then create the new partition to install. Also in the past people told me I needed additional software to move between the partitions. I don't think that's true. The last time I tried this was before Ubuntu had a graphics interface. So I neeed very basic info to do this task.

By: the_guv

the_guv — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:35:20 +0000

good to hear Pete

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:09:37 +0000

Thanks a lot! Now even an old Pentium IV with only 256 MB RAM, runs pretty well on Ubuntu 9.10.

By: the_guv

the_guv — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:25:54 +0000

@James .. I'd tend to agree .. thank you.

By: James

James — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:00:01 +0000

Wow... I don't think this makes too much difference to a newer computer, but on my family's older computer this setting made all the difference in the world! Thanks!

By: the_guv

the_guv — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:35:33 +0000

@James .. pleased to help, good to hear, tx

By: James Adams

James Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:45:07 +0000

Thanks! Well Done. I am running Karmic Koala on a Compaq Deskpro PII450/100 with 256mb ram, Seagate Medalist 10232 10gb HD, Western Digital 35100 5gb HD, Nvidia Geforce MX-4000 128mb Video Ram. So the swap file was slowing everything way down. Thanks Again, james