On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 16:44, Chris Murton wrote: > Hmm.. > > Swap is something i very rarely touch. I give it a partition, and it works > mostly. Hence why i'm getting stuck with swap that doesn't work itself. > > dmesg on boot reports Swap space is added. Lovely.. get into the machine, > play about for a while, run 'top' and .. > > Mem: 79300K av, 50836K used, 28464K free, 28656K shrd, 22980K buff > Swap: 127004K av, 0K used, 127004K free 12532K cached > > I realise that it'll use memory in preference, because it's quicker, but as > I understand it, swap should take over once the memory has reached a certain > amount of use. The box *has* run to 2mb free on memory, with no swap in use.
It looks like 28MB free to me. Or are you saying this happened at some other time? > No amount of mkswap, swapoff and swapon will persuade it to work either. > Pleasepleaseplease, suggestions! As long as there is a lot of memory used by 'cached' and 'buff', there isn't much need to swap. If you had 100% used, 0% cached, and 0% swapped, that would be weird. Your situation doesn't seem weird though. There are lots of ways to alloc a lot of memory to see if your swap works. Today I found out that diff is a huge memory hog. Try diff -ua /dev/hda /dev/hdb And let me know if it swaps :) -jwb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
