Mem: 516036k total, 512348k used, 3688k free, 183688k buffers Swap: 1060248k total, 916k used, 1059332k free, 98500k cached
I don't understand this part. If my memory is not fully utilized, why eat a part of the swap? I thought swap is only utilized when no primary memory is available.
You're right it shouldn't eat swap, only if the buffers/cache is bigger than the total space by loaded apps and libraries. The 916k you see there are probably least used pages downgraded to swap, which is a good thing because it usually means that Linux is taking back physical memory and is putting it into good use. And of course Linux's VM is not perfect
It's not perfect, but it's better than M$'s. 2.6 kernel performs a lot better than the 2.4 kernel included with fedora 1. Of course, there were a couple of glitches along the way while improving the 2.6 kernel VM module. So far, I'm satisfied with my current installation of FC3, it's running BIND cache, Apache2, Postfix, Amavisd-new+DSPAM+CLAMAV+sophie+trophie+BTC, Mysql,snort.
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