AW: when is swap allocated
Well from my point of view, I'd say be glad. And it is not so surprising.
I've got three machines running Linux and one Windows NT-System - all of
them with 128 Megs of RAM and - surprise surprise - the only PC that does
swapping is the windows NT system. Linux has a great advantage in
Memory-Usement over most other Desktop (and even some Server) OSes
So you propably shouldn't bother - besides there is rarely anything you
could do about the way your System uses his swap-space. This is part of the
memory-management in the kernel and it's mostly written in assembly.
Feel good about it...
chris
+---------------------------------+
| chris |
| ------------------------------- |
| database design & programming |
| agentur fiedler / video.de |
| |
| madram@video.de |
+---------------------------------+
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: bs7452@csc.albany.edu [mailto:bs7452@csc.albany.edu]
Gesendet: Freitag, 21. Januar 2000 18:56
An: debian
Betreff: when is swap allocated
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
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.
Thanks.
--
Brian J. Stults
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Sociology
University at Albany - SUNY
Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936
Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
--
Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org <
/dev/null
Reply to: