On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 02:39:06PM -0500, Doug Gorley wrote: > G'day list. Here's the header output from top: <snip> > So, my question is, if I've got 191MB of inactive memory, why is my > computer using 7MB of swap space?
Because the OS hasn't needed that stuff in swap since it was swapped out. The OS won't make reads from the harddrive if it doesn't have to. -- Tyler Trafford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
