is my ram underused ?

hey how are you all doing

i installed 1 GB of extra ram after isntalling fedora 10 ...

actully i can still feel that my ram is underused .. ssd accesses is slowing down the whole pc i once was downling torrent on a speeedy wireless connection ... almost stoped my aspire one of doing anything else because of the ssd usage ...

how can i get more benifit of this ram ?? i have 1.5 GB and fedora is using only 200 mb .. 280 at most ... can i use the ram to take of the load of the ssd


P.S
i already deleted swap and loged /var / tmp and /tmp/var to tmpfs in the fstab file

please answer me and thanks

 

I can't tell you the precise answer for fedora 10, but the setting you want to change is called "swappiness" in linux - it controls the extent to which the swap file on the SSD is used. Hopefully a search on that will get you somewhere.

 

If you do a search the general advice is that you do not need to allow a swap file for linpus with the extra 1GB RAM. Macles has advice on how to turn it off http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/07/recl ... spire.html.

 

well , yeah my swap is off ....

on free -mt swap is Zeros all the way

 

Mine too, and I've only got 512MB