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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. | |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. | |Perhaps someone else knows the rationale behind this. | |Daniel. | | |On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:39:06AM -0800, Doug Gorley wrote: | |>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? |> |>Thanks, |> |>-- |>Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP Key ID: 0xA221559B |>Fingerprint: D707 DB92 E64B 69DA B8C7 2F65 C5A9 5415 A221 559B |>Interested in public-key cryptography? http://www.gnupg.org/ |> |> |> |>-- |>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list |> |
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