The fact that your system isn't making much use of the swap space is a good
sign. Linux is designed to use physical memory as efficiently as possible, and
it does. In reality, virtual memory from disk is thousands of times slower
than physical memory (milliseconds vs microseconds). If your system were
using a lot of swap space it would slow down tremendously.
Alan Riggins
zentara wrote:
> "Kim C. Callis" wrote:
> >
> > I have been having a devil of a time with getting any of my swap space
> > addressed. Currently I have 128M of RAM and I had created a 128M swap
> > partition
> >
> > Mem: 127820K av, 116120K used, 11700K free, 75336K shrd, 41640K buff
> > Swap: 130748K av, 812K used, 129936K free 31072K cached
> >
> > At this instance I have 11 meg free, but even when I start doing something
> > like compiling
> >
>
> It's the same on my machine with 64 Meg, only lower numbers.
> One of the Suse experts explained it awhile back, I can't
> quite remember, but Linux will always keep your Ram almost
> totally used, even if some of the stuff is idle.
> 128 Megs is an alot of ram and you could probably run
> a workstation all day in it, and never swap out.
>
> Try compiling 2 or 3 kernels at the same time on different
> consoles and see what happens.
>
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