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 swap when it has no more RAM _and_ has already deleted big chunks of its disk cache.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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