I think that if you have 128 ram or more its almost
unnecessary. I have 256 and it never uses the swap.
Quoting Adrian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> hey Chris --
> i had an idea (which don't happen often)
> you could tell linux not to use the swap by
> eliminating the swap partition.
> tho i don't know if linux *has* to have a swap.
> one of the gurus might be able to answer that
> for us.
>
>
>
> Adrian Smith
> 'de telepone dude
> Telecom Dept.
> x 7042
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>> "Joseph Red" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4:00:44 PM
> 12/13/00 >>>
> How in the world are you using all 2g swap???
> As for physical RAM. When I
> had 128m, I usually had ~10m free, and used no
> swap (according to top). Now
> I have 256m & I would have to try hard to get it
> to use the swap.
>
> Joseph Red
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 11:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP
> partition.
>
>
> > Adrian Smith wrote:
> >
> > > i recently added 128M ram, and linux hasn't
> touched my swap space since
> then.
> > > i have not seen my swap used, at all,
> ever.... since adding the 128M
> >
> > How'd you get it to not use the swap?... I
> have 128MB of RAM also,
> > and a 2GB (yes, 2 gig) swap partition that is
> always 100% used. Even
> > with the 128MB, I never have more than 6 or
> 7MB of memory free.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > - chris
> >
> >
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the serpent and the egg
