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symbio
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 Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:12 pm Post subject: my gentoo server doesn't use swap :/ |
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hi! i have a problem with my swap. my swap space is about 320mb's, and my memory is always full.
i have done $ mkswap /dev/hda2 and $ swapon /dev/hda2 ... and my gentoo should use swap, but as you can see on that page ( http://bsfh.pri.ee/sysinfo/ ), none of my swap space is being used ... how is that so?
$ free output...
bsfh / # free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 385124 372716 12408 0 60420 117592
-/+ buffers/cache: 194704 190420
Swap: 321292 0 321292 |
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pixie
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Well.... it's not going to use swap until it runs OUT of memory.
You don't want it using swap when there is RAM going spare. It would slow things down. |
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symbio
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| hm.. okay then. i just thought it's a little suspicious, because when i last installed gentoo with almost-the-same configuration, it DID use swap ... |
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Oopsz
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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do a really big diff (like gentoo-dev-sources against gentoo-sources) and see if it uses swap. If it does, then its working properly, you just haven't hit the ceiling of your physical ram yet.
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