It's pretty normal under linux that the memory usage is in the 90's. Have a look here: http://users.opengate.be/~glenn/phpsysinfo/ You'll see the same thing. It'll only start swaping when *really* necessairy. There is no such thing as too large swap devices.
You have to search the cause of your system hanging somewhere else. Have you read through your logs? Does your total system hang or is it only the X server? Have you checked temperatures, the state of your disks, ran a memory tester, etc...? Regulary type dmesg in a terminal to see the last kernel messages, and maybe you'll find something supsicious there. Carl-Adam Brengesjö wrote: > I have a problem on two of my machines, the only similarity in hardware > is being Intel based, not the same processors, not the same mainboard, > not the same brand of harddisks, etc. > > On both machines, any swap space allocated for linux isn't used at all. > The RAM usage goes up to about 95-98% and can stay there for a couple of > days. > > Then suddenly the system hangs. My guess is that the RAM usage has gone > 100% and a deadlock of some kind has occured. I have no knowledge in a > way to actually confirm this, as I cant access anything from the compuer > as soon as it hangs. > > However, any mp3/ogg song being currently played is played until the > end, but the player doesn't start playing a new one (mpd/gmpc & xmms). > > > At first, I figured (with some hinting after a google search) that it > may be too large swap devices, although the documentation states that > linux can handle 1GB devices with no problem, IIRC 2 GB may be the limit > on a single drive. > So based on this, I tried to split the parts into several small ones > instead, using 128,256,512 and 1024 sizes, one of each listed. > But still same problem. > > Only, to me, relevant google hit on my problem is: > http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=138211 > > But here they say that this is normal, not using the swap. But that > cannot be true as physical memory usage is near it's limit, and still no > swap activity. Plus the system hangs, which in no way can be considered > normal. > > > Cheers, C-A. B. > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
