Re: when is swap allocated
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Brian J. Stults wrote:
> I was just wondering when/why swap space is used. I rooted around a bit
> in the various sources of documentation, but didn't find what I was
> looking for. The reason I ask is that swap is very rarely used on my
> system. Most of the time, the results of "free" look like this:
>
> total used free shared buffers
> cached
> Mem: 128300 125204 3096 91920 2784
> 61060
> -/+ buffers/cache: 61360 66940
^^^^^
Why should the kernel use the swap, if more then half of your memory is
unused?
> Swap: 273024 4344 268680
>
> Maybe I should be glad that there is little need on my system for swap,
> but I'm a little surprised and worried that something is not set
> properly.
There is nothing to wory about (my $0.20).
Martin
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