Ok, my CPU is getting bogged down or something when I play videos or movies on my computer, this is only a Natty problem so far, I thought it was my GPU, but after tinkering with that, I believe that maybe I don't have enough swap memory. What's happening is when I play a movie on my computer, after a while it starts to lag, the sound's gone, and it bogs my computer down to the point of inoperability. This only happens with movies, that I play on my computer, vids from youtube, or any other online source do not give me this problem, streams to a program like VLC do give me this problem. Will increasing the swap help me any, or am I going to have to break in and up the ante on my CPU fan or something?
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Links:
> Swap Partition FAQ:
> All about Linux swap space
> All About Linux Swap Part 1: Introduction:
> All About Linux Swap Part 2: Management
> All About Linux Swap Part 3: Analysis
> Linux: How to Use RAM as SwapA good place to start: Topic: Top 20 Kubuntu FAQs & Answers
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Re: More SWAP = Hirgh CPU Performance?
Originally posted by Rog132
It turns out I was just ten years ahead of my time. I feel vindicated
Actually this is a pretty good idea in Windows now if you've got a lot of RAM as some applications require swap but I don't think you can create a ramdisk in an NT-based OS with the utilities that come with Windows.
But - TFA is seven years old and I think Linux memory management is good enough now that moving swap to RAM makes sense only if you don't need the RAM for disk caching, and there are other ways to limit cache size.
It was a heck of an interesting read, thoughwe see things not as they are, but as we are.
-- anais nin
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If the computer we're talking about is the one in your sig - you've got more than enough CPU, GPU and RAM to handle a movie playing. In fact, IMO swapping would really slow everything down.
Let's start with some basic trouble shooting: Open ksysguard and leave it visible and then launch a movie. If your RAM usage continually grows, you've got something leaking memory. - could be X or the VLC or the codec or something else.
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Re: More SWAP = Hirgh CPU Performance?
Originally posted by oshunluvrIf the computer we're talking about is the one in your sig - you've got more than enough CPU, GPU and RAM to handle a movie playing. In fact, IMO swapping would really slow everything down.
Let's start with some basic trouble shooting: Open ksysguard and leave it visible and then launch a movie. If your RAM usage continually grows, you've got something leaking memory. - could be X or the VLC or the codec or something else.Motherboard:ASUS P5Q SE PLUS<br />Videocard:EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB<br />Ram:G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB)<br />Processor:Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz
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