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

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, 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)
> 

If you read the output, in the swap entry you have

total: 351752
used: 0
free: 351752

So you are using 0 swap at the moment. Free just tells you that you have 
351752 available (notice the column titles)

> Thanks & best regards,
> Hannes.
> 
> 
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