Hello daniel,
Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 1:35:38 PM, you textually orated:
d> i'm a bit confused about the use of swap space on the linux file system. i
d> partitioned the disk manually and devoted about 32mb to it, but every time i
d> hit "df" it says that while i have 30464 available, none of it is used...
d> does it ever get used? do i have to enable something somewhere to make sure
d> it gets used? here's the output of df:
"df" is the Disk free command. It shows what is available on the file
system.
<snip>
d> none 30464 0 30464 0% /dev/shm
This is NOT swap space. This is the shared memory device. It is only used
for programs that require POSIX compatible shared memory devices. It will
rarely be used.
Try issuing the "free" command. It should return your memory usage.
Something like...
[brian@gateway brian]$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 126708 124776 1932 0 54604 23276
-/+ buffers/cache: 46896 79812
Swap: 72252 35536 36716
d> an additional question:
d> i'm going to be putting more ram in this box, probably totalling 256 (right
d> now it's stuck at 64). will i have to devote more hard disc to swap? if
d> so, how?
You should. It is good with 2.4 based kernels to have double available RAM.
Of course it _may_ not be necessary. It depends on your actual usage of the
box.
You may want to check this out as a place to start for how to do it.
http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/swap.shtml
Of course some google searches may give you alternate methods or more
information.
Have fun,
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