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[ot] Re: My Swap partition never get used



* 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
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