On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Jim Peters wrote:
> Here is a free report for everyone BTW, you'll enjoy this. I admit it's a
> weird situation. I'm trying newer kernels as I write this.
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 257176 238112 19064 69184 91992 69844
> -/+ buffers/cache: 76276 180900
> Swap: 130748 0 130748
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 515848 482776 33072 76616 176136 210868
> -/+ buffers/cache: 95772 420076
> Swap: 261496 0 261496
Uhhh, what's wrong with this? All it means is that you have 128 MB of
swap (or 256 MB of swap in the second case) and that you haven't used
any yet. I have a bunch of systems like that. It's not like you WANT
the systems to use swap, it's more like you want them to be ABLE to use
swap if they need to. Crank up a couple of 100 MB jobs and you should
see them swap.
A system with NO swap looks like this (just happen to have one handy:-):
rgb@ganesh|T:249>b6 free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 514368 36132 478236 11600 12676 15244
-/+ buffers: 8212 506156
Swap: 0 0 0
A system with swap that hasn't used it yet looks like this:
rgb@ganesh|T:250>b1 free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 514368 60780 453588 11972 35716 13860
-/+ buffers: 11204 503164
Swap: 522992 0 522992
And a system with swap that has just barely dipped into it during a peak
looks like this (a the beauties of having a rack of identical systems
except for b6 that is waiting to be reinstalled:-):
rgb@ganesh|T:252>b4 free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 514300 505952 8348 4004 13860 175604
-/+ buffers: 316488 197812
Swap: 522992 19052 503940
So, you just haven't made your systems work hard/long enough.
rgb
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