On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 00:37 +0000, Shlomi Shalem wrote: > Hey all, > I have a strange problem, hope you guys are able to help:) > Anyway, a few months ago I installed Slack 10.1 and everything goes well > until now, except one thing: my swap partition is not working! I mean, > my physical memory is always standing on somrthing like 96% used but my > swap is totally empty. This happens also when my computer is no running > any heavy processes, and when it does, no matter what, my swap remains > empty and useless... > What could it be?
Shalomi, There's nothing wrong with your system. Linux uses most/all of the free memory for disk cache. In-order to view how your memory is being either type: $ free or $ cat /proc/meminfo Furthermore you can view the system's willingness (so to speak) to drop pages into the swap by reading /proc/sys/vm/swappiness $ cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness Where 0 means "swap only if absolutely necessary", and 100 means "swap when-ever possible". In-order to change this value: (from console, as root) $ echo [0...100] > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness Gilboa ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
