Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage
On 10/09/2014, Bzzzz <lazyvirus@gmx.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 02:57:26 +0800
> Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, but, whatever I tried, I could never get Debian 6 to swap. It
>> would just run out of RAM and freeze.
>
> But you ARE swapping (from your 2nd post):
> Swap: 42860340 1764372 41095968
>
> if you weren't, the 2nd col. would be 0 and col1=col3.
>
>
Alright, then; it is doing token swapping - with 99% of 16GB memory
usage, and, swapping only 4% of (about) 40GB swap capacity, you can't
seriously tell me that the swapping is working as it should be.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
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published by Pan Books, 1992
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