David C. Rankin wrote: > 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. > > Is this normal?? Was the memory just being remapped from the inactive > programs? How can I test to see if my swap file is working? The > partitioner says it is fine, mounted by the kernel as hda5 and is a nice > health 2G in size. But if I can't get the laptop to write anything to > it, how do I know it is working??
The simple advice is to stop worrying! You haven't got a problem so stop looking for one :) A slightly more complicated answer: programs don't use swap, data does. That's an exaggaration but is the gist of the answer. If you want to use some swap, load one gimp and then open lots of pictures. Or load openoffice and lots of documents. Or firefox and lots of web pages. You get the idea. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
