> i just checked my stats for memory usage, and i have 288mg ram and a 250mg > swap space. however, my swap is using 0% and my memory is listed at using > 90%. how do i tell LM 8.0 to use more swap space than ram? That 90% is also used for disk buffers and virtual memory cache as well as actual ram used for programs and data. Ordinarily, with that much RAM, you shouldn't use any swap, save for a few little-used programs that get part of their memory space paged out from time to time. I have 256 megs of RAM and normally have about 15-20megs in swap, unless I launch some really big programs that make other processes swap parts of themselves out. You don't want to favor swap (although some recent kernels tended to do this) because swap is much slower than RAM. But swap is also useful when you want to run large processes, since the kernel can swap out some sleeping processes (or parts of them) to disk, which frees up more RAM for the processes that need it. In general, Linux does the "right thing" when managing RAM and swap resources. > thanks, Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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