----- Original Message ----- From: "Shae Tan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 12:33 AM Subject: Re: [plug] Re: GUI, desktop environments
> > > 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? good question.... answer below... > I thought swap is only utilized when no > primary memory is available. that is not the case... usually the logic there is that why put an idle or sleeping process for a *long time* in a physical memory when you can put it in a swap temporarily and give it more the physical ram to disk buffers and others for better performance... it will put it back to the physical ram once it is in active state again... fooler. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
