The Caffeinated Penguin

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Today's computermachine tip

Posted By matt on April 18, 2007

When your machine is memory bound (650M of 768M used, w/ 800M in swap) and therefore slooooowwww, adding a 1GB stick (replaces the 256M module for 1.5GB) makes for a much happier machine. Now, whenever I flip desktops, it doesn't sit there for 30 seconds paging everything back out of swap.


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