Re: Sarge: plenty of free RAM, but uses swap

["Björn \"KeX3\" Gustafsson" <kex3@towel.nu>]

Uhm, it does say "0" in the Swap-line under used, doesn't it?

Hannes Mayer wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I just noticed that sarge  is using swap, but there is still plenty of
> memory free:
> # free
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       1036532     441552     594980          0      23732     265492
> -/+ buffers/cache:     152328     884204
> Swap:       351752          0     351752
>
> # uname -a
> Linux debian 2.6.8-1-686 #1 Thu Nov 25 04:34:30 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> My previous distro (Fedora2) didn't use swap at all. It just occupied
> almost all RAM, of course with lots of "cached" showing up at # free.
> How can one force it to use RAM first and then swap ?
> (I've google, but didn't find a solution)
>
> Thanks & best regards,
> Hannes.
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