Sorry I hit reply not reply 2 all. J. Jesse Jacobs said: > Hello Doug, > > I've noticed this as well. After normal system use(i.e. no X), Swap > isn't used. If, like stated earlier u use a HUGE app(i.e. gdm/kdm and > all the frills) most of the jobs remain in memory but the infrequently > used jobs are paged out to swap to allow for a faster load of the > imminent job. > > If this behavior annoys u, try like Ben Sparks suggests: > swapoff > and edit your /etc/fstab > > Jesse Jacobs > > Doug Gorley said: >> I've got 768MB of RAM (1x256 + 1x512), and from the top output below, >> it looks like only 447MB is being used. >> >> On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 12:33, Ben Sparks wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> How much RAM do you have. I just don't mount swap unless I know I'll >>> be doing something that requires a ton a memory. I have 512mb and >>> don't use the swap unless I need it. >>> >>> Daniel Carrera wrote: >>> >>> |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 >>> |> >>> | >>> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) >>> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org >>> >>> iD8DBQE+a6UoyJBq97+CQrERAuuKAJ0f7hOpi2NodpOetnYEf0tKsnO00wCeJAAG >>> ZvfPpzq61MJaQ/iZEQMS8eA= >>> =O21Q >>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >> -- >> 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
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