swap space

[<tko@westgac3.dragon.com>]

I asked earlier on this list about why memory is sucked up into buffers. I
appreciate the answers and thank everyone who responded. Now I have a new
question: why won't the kernel release the swap space that it apparently
needed sometime earlier? The kernel is 2.0.30

Here's a snapshot of /proc/meminfo. Please note that it has 29 megs of
physical memory available, but still insist on using swap space.

        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  97660928 68157440 29503488 11612160 48906240  5804032
Swap: 33026048   319488 32706560
MemTotal:     95372 kB
MemFree:      28812 kB
MemShared:    11340 kB
Buffers:      47760 kB
Cached:        5668 kB
SwapTotal:    32252 kB
SwapFree:     31940 kB

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