--- 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? At the moment I am assuming that since my machine had 1gb ram the kernel finds the swap not much usefull. on mine the priority is shown as -1. I did some google seaches on this and since I did't come up with anything assumed what I did. would be nice if someone could post on this. > 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 > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
