Re: swap not being used
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:22:13 -0600
Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com> wrote:
> 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
I will ditto that even with only 384 Megs of ram it takes sometimes days
for me to show any swap usage, and that is running a lot of java apps
that eat up memory and have leaks to boot... when I was running potato I
think I went a whole year - across reboots of course - before I ever saw
swap being used. There was nothing wrong with my system though. I even
inquired and was told that as long as it is showing up in "free" then it
was available to the kernel.
HTH
Shawn
>
> 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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Shawn Lamson
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