On Monday 19 November 2007 21:27:27 Lenz Grimmer wrote: > Hi, > > Clayton wrote: > > OK, computer started to swap like mad this evening.... lots of free > > RAM.... but it is still swapping to disk, and not freeing the swap > > space up either. I will add a comment to the bug report.... > > > > free > > total used free shared buffers cached > > Mem: 2076040 1182912 893128 0 41784 559888 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 581240 1494800 > > Swap: 4192956 1472652 2720304 > > Yes, this looks familiar. Plenty of memory free, but still lots of swap
That's usually a sign that something big was running, and eating up memory, forcing other things into swap, and then it exited (or crashed), freeing up the memory it used. Seeing 50% free memory on a linux system that has been running for a while is highly unusual. It should be used for buffers and cache, if for nothing else. It is almost always a sign of the above scenario Anders -- Madness takes its toll -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
