[CentOS] CentOS 5: comment swap in fstab

Fri Nov 9 07:15:38 UTC 2007
Christopher Chan <christopher at ias.com.hk>

finley at privacynetworks.com wrote:
> I'm not sure what gave me this idea, but I decided
> to comment out the swap partition in /etc/fstab
> and reboot my laptop. I did not run swapoff directly at
> any time.
> 
> I'm running more things now than I would ever dream of
> to hammer my 500MB of memory, but I still notice NO
> slowdown. This is the best desktop experience I've
> ever had for any OS on any hardware!

Er...you won't experience any slowdown...you would experience killed app.

> Mem:    449556k total,   442156k used,     7400k free,     9648k buffers
> Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,   159160k cached
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  2921 root      16   0  227m  69m 7312 R 20.9 15.9  22:55.56 X
>  3100 finley    15   0  183m  51m  16m S  0.4 11.7   5:05.54 firefox-bin
>  3116 finley    15   0  223m  39m 2440 S  0.4  8.9   0:54.60 java_vm
>  3253 finley    15   0  198m  34m 9.8m S  0.0  7.9   0:07.97 swriter.bin
>  3317 finley    15   0  240m  25m 8684 S  2.9  5.8   2:35.17 xine
>  3399 finley    15   0 57024  25m  16m S  0.0  5.7   0:08.57 konqueror
>  3638 finley    15   0 93632  23m  15m S  0.0  5.4   0:03.80 gaim
> 
> As you can see, I'm running a KDE environment. I'm going to
> try this in a gnome environment tomorrow.

...Interesting, the numbers do not add up...I wonder what happens as you 
visit more websites with firefox...and if you also run thunderbird at 
the same time...

Maybe you should stick to konqueror and kmail...

> 
> Hope this makes someone else's day!

My apologies if I burst any bubbles :-D