have a look at this article titled *Maximum swappage* http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/maximum-swappage.xml
On 6/15/06, Nishan Nazeer <callmethedevil at gmail.com> wrote: > > hi, > i had experienced this before and mailed to this mailing list regarding > this.. > i also mailed quite number o fother mailing list.. but dint get any > responses. > is there any priority based on which kernel decides to swap mem pages to > disk? > if yes, kernel might be givin swap too low priority to keep it > unocuupied.. > nishan > > > On 6/15/06, justin joseph <justin_joseph007 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > hi, > > > > On this machine... > > > > [root at localhost root]# cat /etc/issue > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon) > > Kernel \r on an \m > > > > > > the swap space is not being used. I tried giving > > 'swapon -a -e' although this is done by rc.sysinit i > > think. > > > > 'cat /proc/swaps' gives.. > > > > Filename Type Size > > Used Priority > > /dev/hda2 partition > > 2096472 0 3 > > > > How is not the cache being used? > > > > thanks > > Justin > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailinglist mailing list > > Mailinglist at ilug-cochin.org > > http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > > > > > > -- > > Regards > _______ > > nishan > > _______________________________________________ > Mailinglist mailing list > Mailinglist at ilug-cochin.org > http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > > > -- d i n o k o r a h Tel: +44 795 66 65 283 -------------------------------- ???? ???? Tel: +?? ?????????? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/attachments/20060615/6fc43b73/attachment.html
