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How much RAM do you have. I just don't mount swap unless I know I'll be doing something that requires a ton a memory. I have 512mb and don't use the swap unless I need it.

Daniel Carrera wrote:

|I don't know why, but I know that this is normal behaviour.
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|What you will notice is that Linux will use a small ammount of swap from
|the beginning, but it won't use much until actually you run out of RAM.
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|Perhaps someone else knows the rationale behind this.
|
|Daniel.
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|On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:39:06AM -0800, Doug Gorley wrote:
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|>G'day list.  Here's the header output from top:
|>
|>----------
|> 11:38:03  up 18:02,  3 users,  load average: 0.13, 0.08, 0.02
|>104 processes: 102 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
|>CPU states:  7.7% user,  1.4% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% iowait, 90.8%
|>idle
|>Mem:   775460k av,  709540k used,   65920k free,       0k shrd,  318648k
|>buff
|>       447528k active,             191944k inactive
|>Swap:  498004k av,    6952k used,  491052k free                  207392k
|>cached
|>----------
|>
|>So, my question is, if I've got 191MB of inactive memory, why is my
|>computer using 7MB of swap space?
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|>Thanks,
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