David C. Rankin wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: >> The Thursday 2007-09-20 at 06:41 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: >> >>> Ok, >>> Now I'm confused... After all of the discussion about ram size/swap >>> size, I decided to try and make my 1G Toshiba P35 laptop start swapping >>> stuff to the swap file. >>> I opened everything I could think of, 4 konsoles, 2 Open Office files, >>> 3 Gimps, 2 Firefox, 2 Kongueror, Kjot, knotes, ksnapshot, kstars, >>> Amarok, Thunderbird and several more, but the memory required, as shown >>> by top, *never* exceeded 1G. The more I would open, the more slight >>> slowness would occur, but I *always* had 13k - 15k of memory left and >>> *nothing* was ever written to the swap file. >> It probably was taken from the memory used for buffers. The command >> 'swapon -s' will also tell you the used swap and where. >> >> Just suspend the machine to disk, and get back: you will see that many >> things will remain swaped out. The computer is slow right after waking up, >> because needed things are not in ram and have to be read from disk. After >> a while, it is faster than before because it has got ridden himself of >> useless chunks in memory that has ben swapped out. > > [root Rankin-P35a:/home/david] # swapon -s > Filename Type Size Used Priority > /dev/hda5 partition 2104472 0 -1 > > What is strange is that man swapon says -s is equivalent to cat > /proc/swaps. I do not have a /proc/swaps to be found. Hmm.. Thoughts? > >
Let me correct that. I do have a swaps it has the permissions: [root Rankin-P35a:/home/david] # ll /proc/swaps -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-09-20 07:33 /proc/swaps The permission would seem to prevent writing to swap. What should the permissions for swap be? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
