--- On Mon, 20/10/08, Nileshkumar Pitroda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Nileshkumar Pitroda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [LinuxVadaPav] Swap not used To: "Linux Daemon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Linux Mantra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Linux Vadapav" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 20 October, 2008, 12:50 PM Dear All, This is output of free command, System is consuming full RAM, swap is not used at all, I tried with following command but doesn't work. swapoff -a /sbin/mkswap /dev/sda2 swapon -a total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 964052 954872 9180 0 87764 418076 -/+ buffers/cache: 449032 515020 Swap: 2104504 0 2104504 So how to make it work. Regards Nilesh Hi, Ya this happens on production servers, but this does not means that server will hang. kernel occupies the memory more than it uses. 20% of memory which it shows used is free. swap is used when kernel wants some program to run after certain period, it puts that on swap. Mubeen ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _ Want to explore the world? Visit MSN Travel for the best deals. http://in.msn. com/coxandkings [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] From Chandigarh to Chennai - find friends all over India. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/citygroups/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
