On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 02:04:36AM +0800, Jason Lim wrote: > I'm not exactly sure how the Linux kernel would handle this. > > Right now, the swap is untouched. If the server needed more ram, wouldn't > it be swapping something... anything? I mean, it currently has 0kb in > swap, and still has free memory. > > Here is a recent top: > > 101 processes: 97 sleeping, 3 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 9.4% user, 14.0% system, 0.5% nice, 76.1% idle > Mem: 128236K total, 125492K used, 2744K free, 69528K buffers > Swap: 289160K total, 0K used, 289160K free, 10320K cached
Remember that adding RAM means larger buffers/cache, and so faster IO. Only 3 MB free memory means that Linux would really like more RAM for larger buffers. Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://student.uci.agh.edu.pl/~porridge/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216