* ThanhVu Nguyen (thanhvunguyen@psu.edu) [020701 23:38]: > Hi, > > I just reformat and reinstall with the Debian + XFS iso, everything > seems fine, I used my old partition settings, just reformat it with > XFS. Everyone seems fine, fast, perform as expected. > > The problem is with the swap partition, it is NEVER get used, I can > swapoff it, no problem. Just that it's not used at all > more /proc/swaps > Filename Type Size Used > Priority > /dev/hda8 partition 417648 0 -1 > > I tried to torture the system by moving some large abount of files, > compiling several large apps at once till the system is exhausted, > totally out of memory, the swap still not being used. Did you try firing up emacs? ;-) /me ducks! No, really, though. What does 'free' show you? Or top? Are you filling up your RAM? If no, then why do you want to swap? good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -E.W. Dijkstra
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