From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 20 19:23:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C2F9106566C for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:23:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from herbert.raimund@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2F138FC13 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:23:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from herbert.raimund@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2008 19:23:27 -0000 Received: from host-194126238033.net-serwis.pl (EHLO bobcat.edu) [194.126.238.33] by mail.gmx.net (mp046) with SMTP; 20 Apr 2008 21:23:27 +0200 X-Authenticated: #18511094 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/snYcKGkXs6T28uHU2L0VoZr4caiUSntWfK4tWZF j4qxJSxbdGPyea Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:28:47 +0200 From: herbert langhans To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20080420212847.178a849d.herbert.raimund@gmx.net> Organization: private X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: RAM & Swap & Speed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:23:29 -0000 Hi Daemons, recently I had to add some more RAM on a workstation. Was 512MB before and is 2GB now, the reason was to give some graphic apps more space. But to my surprise the workstation ran faster--but before adding RAM it did NOT make use of the swap-partition and after the big RAM chip of course not too (checked it with #top). This was a Slackware installation. Had anyone experienced such effect on BSD as well? Cheers herbs () ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against html/rtf/vCard in mail /\ - against M$ attachments