Thus spake Seth Delackner: > This is a stock potato 2.2.19 kernel from my initial installation of > debian about 2 days ago. In the logs it definitly shows "Adding > Swap:..." and no errors. 'free' and 'swapon -s' show that I have 64 > megs of swap space on my swap partition that are completely empty. So > why does it refuse to use the swap even when main memory is choking on > many apps, most of them sleeping? Check the output of free - it'll show you how much RAM is actually in use, as opposed to being vavhed or whatever. If you have free RAM, you cache won't be touched. Steve -- I didn't believe in reincarnation in any of my other lives. I don't see why I should have to believe in it in this one. -- Strange de Jim
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