On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ... >>>> Then why not have a really big swap file? If swap is useful as a >>>> second layer of caching behind RAM, why doesn't everyone with some >>>> extra hard drive space have a 100GB swap file? >>> >>> I have 12GB of RAM and 12GB of swap on my main PC. Why? Because... why >>> not? :) After 5 days uptime, it actually has 89M of swap used for some >>> reason. It has over 10GB cached. All of my sysctl vm.* settings have >>> been left to the defaults. So I guess it just pushed some unused stuff >>> out to swap to make room for more caching. > > Uh oh. Did I misunderstand you Paul? Do you have 10GB cached in swap or RAM? > > - Grant > > >> That's what I'm curious about. If some swap is good, why isn't more >> better? Paul has demonstrated that a Linux system will put at least >> 10GB to use and probably much more given the opportunity. Disk space >> is so cheap, why isn't everyone running a 10GB or 100GB swap since >> Linux will actually put it to use? >> >> - Grant
In RAM. Total swap usage was only 89M.
