On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 02:01:15PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> [2002.12.23.1256 +0100]:
> > > Mem: 516580 475844 40736 0 170540 224736
> > > -/+ buffers/cache: 80568 436012
> > > Swap: 996020 0 996020
> > >
> > > 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?
> >
> > You haven't consumed all RAM yet.
>
> I have, although then I was unable to get a free output as the system
> was very unresponsive, the mouse very quirky, and it would hardlock
> sooner or later.
Create a swapfile and mount it (mounting with priority > 0 may help).
See if it swaps to the swapfile. If not, I'd say your kernel is
somehow broken.
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Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
Ozymandias
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive (stamped on these lifeless things),
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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