Re: swap not being used
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 02:40:21PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> mother:~# cat /proc/swaps
> Filename Type Size Used Priority
> /dev/hda2 partition 996020 0 -1
>
> now say i'll start openoffice and mozilla and a couple of others, just to
> consume RAM. the system will not use the swap space. any idea why not?
How long did you wait? Anything in dmesg? When I start my server it has
not swap usage for up to a few hours just because it doesn't
need to and it only has 96MB ram. Then the next day or so it
has more
adamm@polaris:~$ cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 partition 345388 13596 10
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 partition 144576 13516 10
/dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0/part3 partition 160640 13584 10
I don't think there is anything wrong with linux.
Try checking the swap for back blocks... Maybe that might explain a thing
or two....
- Adam
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