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Bogus swap usage problem?



Can someone tell me if this is normal behavior?  Note how the amount of
physical memory in use doesn't change even though 52 megs of data from swap
must be swapped in.  Is the swapped data tossed?  If its useless, why hadn't
it been cleared out beforehand?  Any information would be helpful.  Please
cc: repies to me.  Thanks.


# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        127408      83172      44236          0       2416      37612
-/+ buffers/cache:      43144      84264
Swap:       262136      52688     209448
# swapon -s
Filename                        Type            Size    Used    Priority
/swap                           file            262136  52688   5
# swapoff /swap
# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        127408      83432      43976          0       2424      37692
-/+ buffers/cache:      43316      84092
Swap:            0          0          0
# swapon -s
Filename                        Type            Size    Used    Priority
# uname -a
Linux hork 2.4.7 #6 Mon Jul 23 02:16:11 EDT 2001 i686 unknown
# swapon --version
swapon: mount-2.11h
# free -V
procps version 2.0.7

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