You don't what that to happen. Swap, more specifically your hard disk, is slow compared with your PC's RAM. If you find out your PC is maxing out its swap space, then it's time to buy more RAM.
Happy New Year! --- mike t. ----- Original Message ---- From: mary tabucan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2008 8:59:12 AM Subject: [plug] making use of swap Hi Linux Gurus, I just wanted to be more knowledgeable of the the SWAP. When I checked my machine's Memory usage using top, i see this report: Cpu(s): 7.8% us, 2.1% sy, 0.0% ni, 90.2% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 507276k total, 500964k used, 6312k free, 62324k buffers Swap: 522072k total, 0k used, 522072k free, 178940k cached Does this mean my machine is not using any swap? Also,I confirmed it when I do a free command: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 507276 500364 6912 0 59292 178744 -/+ buffers/cache: 262328 244948 Swap: 522072 0 522072 Is there a way I can make my machine use the RAM at the same time the swap, so that both memories share workload on my machine. Any help is greatly appreciated... Happy new Year..:) Yours, Dylan
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