I don't know why, but I know that this is normal behaviour. What you will notice is that Linux will use a small ammount of swap from the beginning, but it won't use much until actually you run out of RAM.
Perhaps someone else knows the rationale behind this. Daniel. On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:39:06AM -0800, Doug Gorley wrote: > G'day list. Here's the header output from top: > > ---------- > 11:38:03 up 18:02, 3 users, load average: 0.13, 0.08, 0.02 > 104 processes: 102 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 7.7% user, 1.4% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% iowait, 90.8% > idle > Mem: 775460k av, 709540k used, 65920k free, 0k shrd, 318648k > buff > 447528k active, 191944k inactive > Swap: 498004k av, 6952k used, 491052k free 207392k > cached > ---------- > > So, my question is, if I've got 191MB of inactive memory, why is my > computer using 7MB of swap space? > > Thanks, > > -- > Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP Key ID: 0xA221559B > Fingerprint: D707 DB92 E64B 69DA B8C7 2F65 C5A9 5415 A221 559B > Interested in public-key cryptography? http://www.gnupg.org/ > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
