openSUSE 10.2 on a computer with 2GB of RAM and a 4GB swap partition Over time I've seen my swap partition get "full". It is currently sitting at 4029 of 4095 Mb with no applications running (outside of the KDE desktop).
Things are fine until I do something that pushes things out of RAM and into swap... then the computer slows right down as it twiddles with whatever debris is left laying around in the swap and finds room to swap out new stuff. Is this normal? I have never noticed the swap partition filling up like this, and remaining "full" over an extended period including through logout and login (not reboot). Usually, when things get swapped to disk I see the partition use increase... then when it is no longer needed that swapped data is released/removed, and the swap partition falls back to zero. Lately, over the past 2 weeks (with no updates), that swap space is not being released. I know (expect) if I reboot, that the swap will reset to zero... or if I do a swapoff and then swapon I should see it all reset back to zero... but, that is not really telling me why the swap space is not released. Anyone have any insight on this? Or know a good resource on finding out what is stuck in the swap space? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
