[PROBLEM] How to increase swap size

[LeoSum]

(13th Mar, 2014 04:32 AM)IriDium Wrote:  Are you sure you need to increase the swap file? 1Gb seems overly excessive.

What does free -h give?

Can you check the CPU usage with vmstat 5 30 - is it high?

I don't have access to my pi right now, but i fiddled around a bit before I read your post, as I didn't want to accidentally screw everything up by changing the swap size. I think the whole problem really is due to high cpu load. I connected to the pi via ssh and monitored via "top" what is happening while i connected to owncloud in the browser.

top showed me that even before accessing onwcloud the cpu load was high. xmbc was constantly using over 80%. After disabling rss feed in xmbc this droped to 20%, but still a bit high, isn't it?
When i kill xmbc via ssh (stop xmbc), owncloud responds much quicker, even without resizing swap. And top tells me that most of the swap space isn't even used at all, even if I upload and download large files.

So I guess the best thing will be to dynamically enable and disable xbmc whenever I need it. I just need to find a comfortable way to do that. I am looking at reading cec signals from my tv to initiate startup and stop of the xbmc process. But I guess that's another thread by itself

I appreciate your guys help!