On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 13:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On a new Linux server I just set up, I created a 500 meg swap file
> which is equal to the amount of ram in the machine. The swap file is
> active but shows 0% used, while the memory shows 184 meg used and 316
> meg free.
I assume your results are similar to mine? This is completely normal,
to not ever use the swap file, if it is never needed. (I have 512MB RAM
and 640MB Swap)
[ryan@vanessa]:[~]$ free -m
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 500 490 9 0 63
239
-/+ buffers/cache: 187 313
Swap: 643 0 643
> The swap file is mounted as /dev/hda2, has the proper entry in
> /etc/fstab yet it's never utilized. Is there a threshold as to when it
> will kick in or could something else be wrong? I've never had issues
> with the swap file in earlier versions. Thanks!
I've loaded everything I can possibly think of on my system, including
about 20 pictures and the only thing changing is the amount of
buffers/cache. All is well, this is normal. Oh, look, I used just
under 1MB of swap! Weeee...
[ryan@vanessa]:[~]$ free -m
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 500 493 7 0 15
226
-/+ buffers/cache: 252 248
Swap: 643 0 642
-Ryan
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