Re: My System doesn't use swap!

2005-02-01 Thread DervishD
Hi Bill :) * Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > >Swap is orders of magnitude slower than RAM. Why put things there if you > >still have RAM left? The kernel only puts things in swap when it has no > >more RAM _and_ has already deleted big chunks of its disk cache. > Unless he just bo

Re: My System doesn't use swap!

2005-02-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kyle Moffett wrote: On Jan 31, 2005, at 07:44, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Ok maybe I wasn't able to read the /free/ output correctly, but why is no swap used (more than 60% ram are used)? Swap is orders of magnitude slower than RAM. Why put things there if you still have RAM left? The kernel o

Re: My System doesn't use swap!

2005-01-31 Thread Rahul Karnik
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:50:35 +1100, Benno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon Jan 31, 2005 at 13:44:04 +0100, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > >Ok maybe I wasn't able to read the /free/ output correctly, but why is > >no swap used (more than 60% ram are used)? > > Why would you want to use swap whe

Re: My System doesn't use swap!

2005-01-31 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jan 31, 2005, at 07:44, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Ok maybe I wasn't able to read the /free/ output correctly, but why is no swap used (more than 60% ram are used)? Swap is orders of magnitude slower than RAM. Why put things there if you still have RAM left? The kernel only puts things in s

Re: My System doesn't use swap!

2005-01-31 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Michael Buesch wrote: > >Quoting Matthias-Christian Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>Hi! > >>I have mysterious Problem: > >>90 % of my Ram are used (340 MB), but 0 Byte of my Swap (2GB) is used > >>and about about 150 MB are swappable. > >> > >>[EMAIL P

Re: My System doesn't use swap!

2005-01-31 Thread Benno
On Mon Jan 31, 2005 at 13:44:04 +0100, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: >Michael Buesch wrote: > >>Quoting Matthias-Christian Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >>>Hi! >>>I have mysterious Problem: >>>90 % of my Ram are used (340 MB), but 0 Byte of my Swap (2GB) is used >>>and about about 150 MB are swa

Re: My System doesn't use swap!

2005-01-31 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Michael Buesch wrote: Quoting Matthias-Christian Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi! I have mysterious Problem: 90 % of my Ram are used (340 MB), but 0 Byte of my Swap (2GB) is used and about about 150 MB are swappable. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ free total used free shared

Re: My System doesn't use swap!

2005-01-31 Thread Michael Buesch
Quoting Matthias-Christian Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > I have mysterious Problem: > 90 % of my Ram are used (340 MB), but 0 Byte of my Swap (2GB) is used > and about about 150 MB are swappable. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ free > total used free sharedbuffers

My System doesn't use swap!

2005-01-31 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Hi! I have mysterious Problem: 90 % of my Ram are used (340 MB), but 0 Byte of my Swap (2GB) is used and about about 150 MB are swappable. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:383868 362176 21692 0