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?
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